Understanding Domains

Sep 3

If I could have your attention, I would rather like to quickly rant about something that I see all of the time.

1. People pay for their own domain name
2. Those same people want to get e-mail
3. Those people proceed to register an e-mail address with some free webmail (e.g., Yahoo!, Google, etc)

Why does require a rant? Because they paid for their own domain! Instead of having to register [email protected], they could very well just decide that they want to get [email protected]. Doesn’t that seem more appealing? Isn’t that more professional and more enjoyable? Yes, yes I think that we can all agree to that.

The only argument that I can think of is that people want to be able to use the webmail clients to access their e-mail. I hear ya. But maybe more importantly, Google hears ya. I don’t want to be a Google salesman, but their standard edition of Google Apps is pretty free. And that will pretty much take care of you.

Together, we can combat annoying-to-remember e-mail addresses. We can do it!