How to get a custom email address without registering a domain

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How to get a custom email address without registering a domain

by Brad Linder Jun 9th 2008

Want a custom email address that looks a bit more professional than username@yahoo.com? Email service provider Mail.com provides users with a chance to pick from dozens of available domain names. That means you can get a free email account like user@techie.com, user@tokyo.com, user@doctor.com, or of course, user@mail.com.

You can choose from a number of categories, like top choices, academic, cities, countries, hobbies, jobs, locations, and miscellaneous.

Once you sign up for a free account, you get 3GB of storage, an address book, and calendar. In theory, if you don't like the Mail.com email service, you could just forward all of your email to your email provider of choice. But there's a catch. Free accounts don't support forwarding. If you pony up $3.95/month or $29.99/year you can get a get a premium account with unlimited storage and email forwarding.

[via TechnoSpot]

Tags: custom-domain, email, mail.com

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

robotrock said 5:17PM on 6-09-2008

AOL does the same thing at domains.aol.com ....I think they have imap support for them as well.

Peter Lowe said 6:14PM on 6-09-2008

But, if they decide they want to sell the domain you picked, you'll be out of luck. I'm betting that Google survives longer than these guys, and I'm not gambling my emails on whether or not their techs remembered to renew their domains on time.

dennis said 6:41PM on 6-09-2008

at that price you should buy a domain.

Simon said 6:54PM on 6-09-2008

OMG! I cannot believe this just made it to DLS. I'd been using Mail.com since around 2000. They've had this feature at that time. The domain I picked was engineer.com. I forwarded all the messages to my other accounts. Then they started charging for forwarding. I actually paid $14.95 for two years. Then there was Gmail...

Bryan Price said 7:53PM on 6-09-2008

I've been using that service since I don't know how long. It forwards to my gmail account. It still gets quite a bit of use.

kaushik said 7:48AM on 6-10-2008

There are a few more. read this

http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/10/3-services-that-provide-personalized.html

jakus said 9:53AM on 6-10-2008

Ive always used mail.com, i had needer pop3, so went for the premium account, which works out alot cheaper than most providers over here in the uk.

edward said 1:13PM on 6-10-2008

Most people should be able to register a domain for about $10 a year and many domain name registration sites offer free email forwarding for you domain name. Its pretty easy to do. And you can send email from that address with gmail and probably other clients. I decided to go for a google apps account instead to make things a bit more flexable but it is super handy.

Marco said 8:14AM on 6-16-2008

Why not writing an article about FreeYourID.com?

90 days absolutely for free, no credit card required.

Get a http://first.last.name web address and mail address like first@last.name for free.

After 90 days IF you want to continue using that service it's around 11 bucks or so for a year.

jimmy@carter.name is better than jimmy27363@mymail.com I think ;-)

kaykay said 12:08PM on 6-26-2008

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