Permanent Email Address

[1sikbITCH]

As I switch ISP's, I realize how many accounts I've registered using my Earthlink email address over the years, and how many I'll now have to go fix. Now I'm going to get another ISP that will sooner or later turn to crap and I'll be moving on again.

I have a hotmail account as well, but I really don't want business contacts emailing onesikb1tch and I don't really want another hotmail, or yahoo, or excite account.

I've had the same phone number for 25 years and am looking for similar stability in an email account. Something with a name that's not necessarily professional, but at least respectable. Something I could use to email my priest, and not boytoys4u.com

I did search but came up with nothing that stood out.

Any recommendations?

 

[Confused]

Pay $8.88 per year for a domain from Namecheap, and either use the email forwarding to forward it to any email account, or get yourself some cheap webhosting or get someone else to host it and give you a few email accounts.


Confused

 

[Richdog]

breathe.com is a first class permenant email addy.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Originally posted by: Confused
Pay $8.88 per year for a domain from Namecheap, and either use the email forwarding to forward it to any email account, or get yourself some cheap webhosting or get someone else to host it and give you a few email accounts.


Confused

Agreed. Buy yourself a domain name (I prefer GoDaddy), and get some cheap hosting. Try something like RippleHost.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Confused
Pay $8.88 per year for a domain from Namecheap, and either use the email forwarding to forward it to any email account, or get yourself some cheap webhosting or get someone else to host it and give you a few email accounts.


Confused

GoDaddy has cut prices. Use them. Only $7.95/year.

 

[iamme]

does your priest know you go by the handle "1sikbITCH" on the internet?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage

Originally posted by: Confused
Pay $8.88 per year for a domain from Namecheap, and either use the email forwarding to forward it to any email account, or get yourself some cheap webhosting or get someone else to host it and give you a few email accounts.


Confused

Agreed. Buy yourself a domain name (I prefer GoDaddy), and get some cheap hosting. Try something like RippleHost.

Agreed.

Read my post which states:

1) $8.88 NameCheap.com - register your own .com .net or .org domain
2) $9.99 RippleHost.com - web hosting 5 email addresses, POP3/IMAP, www.yourdomain.com web hosting, PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI, cPanel and webmail
=====================
Under $20/yr best value

Your e-mail address will NEVER change again and goes with you whether you have cable, DSL, dial up or no internet access.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Very nice. Thx guys.

Btw I'm not Catholic, iamme, I just threw that in there so I could make a sik joke

 

[yobarman]

i've had a bellatlantic email addy for years even though i havent had DSL from them or verizon for like 2 years.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: 1sikbITCH
Very nice. Thx guys.

Btw I'm not Catholic, iamme, I just threw that in there so I could make a sik joke

You're welcome

Please let us know if you have any questions.

 

[fastz28]

Did you graduate from college? Some school let you keep your old account.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: 1sikbITCH

Any recommendations?

buy your own domain and get an email host for it

 

[Nocturnal]

I'd register a domain and get some hosting for a few $ a month and have your own e-mail for life. Or until you can't afford the payments.

 

[alkemyst]

Yeah only 100% is your own domain

I had an email addy since 1991 and they finally sold it off last year. Talk about crap to deal with. 12 years of history down the crapper.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Well I went with Namecheap, got a domain and 10 email addy's for $26.00. Ripplehost was cheaper but only 5 emails.

I was able to get a variation of my last name and now will create addresses for my brothers, parents, wife, and some other kin. I'll keep it up thru the years and if they want to use their emails they can. Sooner or later they will discover that AOL is the devil and then me and my emails will be waiting

Now my next question (I'm a noob to all this).

I am assuming that had I only bought the domain and no email addresses, I would have had to find someone who physically has a server, and get them to set up my domain on MS Exchange or something. But since I bought the email addresses, Namecheap will host my emails on their server?

So this time next year if I am in a position to do so, I can just pay the $8.88 and set up my domain on my own server somewhere?