FrozenInTime wrote:How do you own a domain and have different addys? I'm so puter ill literate. How would I get a domain that says
____@JohnDubya.com ??
You can buy any unowned domain many places. The domain itself might cost anywhere from $8 - $12 per year. You may find promos for things like $.99, but the next year it will go up. Owning the domain by itself doesn't get you anything, you of course would want email and perhaps to host a site. There are providers like
1and1,
Go Daddy,
FatCow, and
HostGator (and many others). Monthly cost will be in the $2 - $7 range, with the lower range likely a promo and going away at some time. Current rates that I just found were
as low as $1.99 per month at 1and1 (plus $7.99 per year for your domain). Everyone has promos all the time, so you want to make sure you know what the price will be when the promo ends. Each site allows you to see if your desired domain is available (yes, yours is, but I may buy it and offer it to you for $1,234,412.18).
Once you're setup you can use literally hundreds or thousands of email addresses @johndubya.com.
Beerborg@johndubya.com,
MyBank@johndubya.com,
Amazon@johndubya.com, ... You can also setup a "catchall" that allows you to literally makeup email addresses as you stand in front of the person asking for it, and all of them go into one folder. So, you're at a car dealer and he says "Hey, can I get your email address?". You say, "Sure, it's
SmithFord@johndubya.com". Then, any email that comes to
SmithFord@johndubya.com you know how they got that. When you start getting emails from Nigerian princes at that email address, you call the owner and cuss him out, because he either sold the list or had it unprotected. The beauty of it is that you can go in and setup a rule that says that if that email address gets an email either delete it before you see it or forward it anywhere you want, like the FCC, your worst enemy, etc.
I'd be happy to provide more guidance if you're interested. I myself own 3 domains, one for the family and two for my businesses, and spend around $80 a year for all of it. You can clearly do it for at least a year for $35 or less, but figure the next year closer to $50. You can also switch providers any time you want, but your site will be in limbo for maybe 24 hours.