Having your own domain
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
Would you be master of it?
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Would you be master of it?
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It's what a master doesn't do that counts.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
Zmau Z wrote:
What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ?
Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you, so if yours is zmau.com (don't bother checking, it's already gone) then someone might buy zmau.net or zmau.org etc, so when buying the domain you might want to consider buying as many suffix options as you think reasonable. Beyond that it's pretty cheap and straight-forward, $10 to $20 a year on average. You can't buy it outright, you need to renew it every year, or every three if available.
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It's what a master doesn't do that counts.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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He was making a "joke" :) There is a catchphrase "master of your domain" that he was referring to. Please don't google what it means though :)
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
Having your own domain involves: - Paying annually for the domain name (I pay for two or three years at a time because it's cheaper). - Paying to host your web-site (if you care to have one, I use DiscountASP.NET because I can avoid paying for a database option I don't use.). - Paying to host a mail-host (usually included with the web-site hosting. - Administering the email system. Within the email set-up you can add lots of email addresses such as wife@mydomain.com, daughter@mydomain.com, son@mydomain.com, masterofthedomain@mydomain.com and finally a handy catchall@mydomain.com which you can forward junk to to be auto-deleted. Lot's of options! If I signup for something that might end up sending me lots of junk mail I normally create a mailbox for that thing, such as SomeCompany@mydomain.com, which I then check use for any communication with "Some Company". From this i can usually tell if they have sold my name to other mailing lists because spam mail is addressed to "SomeCompany@mydomain.com" - you set these to auto-delete regularly.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
I got a domain name and a one-page self-administered web site for $3.00 per year, on the 3 year plan. It comes with a bunch of mail boxes. I'll think about my next move in 3 years.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
it's awesome. you can put up pictures, if you want! Chris Losinger[^]
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it's awesome. you can put up pictures, if you want! Chris Losinger[^]
So that's what a 5 dimensional cat looks like!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
having had www.bergren.net now for many many years. It is fun. I have a mail box for me, and my family each member can have as little or as many as they want. for example robert and bob @ both go to the same box. It is also a great place for my blog site. Even though I might publish the blog elsewhere I have it roll up to here. And I can teach a class out of here and did so for a number of years because I can have subsites with whatever the heck I want. Also, a great place to practice web design( I suck as you can see) and web programming etc... It does cost depending upon what you want for bells and whistles. I renew my domain for about $10 per year and buy those in 10 year increments. I know because I just renewed it about 2 weeks ago. Hosting costs me another like $80 a year and includes all the emails I want. I enjoy it. But ymmv. and you get what you put into it.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Zmau Z wrote:
What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ?
Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you, so if yours is zmau.com (don't bother checking, it's already gone) then someone might buy zmau.net or zmau.org etc, so when buying the domain you might want to consider buying as many suffix options as you think reasonable. Beyond that it's pretty cheap and straight-forward, $10 to $20 a year on average. You can't buy it outright, you need to renew it every year, or every three if available.
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
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Zmau Z wrote:
What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ?
Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you, so if yours is zmau.com (don't bother checking, it's already gone) then someone might buy zmau.net or zmau.org etc, so when buying the domain you might want to consider buying as many suffix options as you think reasonable. Beyond that it's pretty cheap and straight-forward, $10 to $20 a year on average. You can't buy it outright, you need to renew it every year, or every three if available.
F-ES Sitecore wrote:
Whatever the domain you want is, it's already gone. Once you find a domain your biggest risk is that someone else will buy the same domain with a different suffix and impersonate you
I agree. Just stay off the internet. :-D
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If you just want email use gmail.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other. Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it. Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
I think that is the point - he does not want to use a generic domain.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
Zmau Z wrote:
The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family...
I have a cheap one; but does provide free email aliasses; so gets sent to their emails. Still, I'd prefer them to use ProtonMail.
Zmau Z wrote:
How much money does it cost ?
A few euro's a year; not noticable.
Zmau Z wrote:
Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ?
My costs are yearly, but as I said, cheap (depending on your top level domain). Haven't currently hooked up the domain to my Linus' server; Mono/ASP doesn't work yet with Apache, the keyboard is whining, and want a decent silly homepage that at least shows the hamsterdance. But remote desktop, with your own domain; impressive to most noobs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
I used to have a domain name, I dropped it because I don't "create content" enough to make it worthwhile.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Hello all, What are the things that one might want to consider when requesting your own domain ? The general idea is to have my own mail address, so I can replace my provider. While we are at it, maybe I will have email addresses for the whole family... What are the pits and palls ? How much money does it cost ? Can I have my domain for good ? Or do I have to pay for it on a yearly basis ? Thanks zmau
I was doing some Microsoft dev work for side project and they wanted to have an email address that is not personal but an organisation one. I bought a domain for cheap ( $18 / year ) on google domain and setup an email redirect. Google lets you create an alias of a sort that says your email id is user@yourdomain.com that then gets redirected to your personal one. It was a good option for me as I needed something cheap and can go around Microsoft's restriction on having organisation domain.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf * Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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I think that is the point - he does not want to use a generic domain.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
Gmail will host your domain for email.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.