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Get free e-mail at (yourname).com
August 31, 1998
Web posted at: 1:30 PM EDT
by Paul Heltzel
(IDG) -- Your company's Web site looks great, but your e-mail address says small time. If you want your messages to arrive at a unique domain name (like yourname.com), you need to register the name and have it pointed to an existing e-mail account. But what if you don't have an existing account, or you'd like to pick up your messages at your custom address on the Web?
Network Solutions Inc., currently the Web's registration service for .com and .net names (for an update see "New domain-name plan nears " link below), is now offering a free trial of a service called Dot Com Mail that lets you use your newly registered brand name for your e-mail address. You can read your e-mail on the Web, like HotMail, or download it with a POP3 e-mail client such as Eudora or your browser's built-in mail program.
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To use the service, you apply for your domain name at NSI's site (see link below) and pony up the $119 registration fee, which holds the name for two years. The Dot Com Mail service runs $4.95 a month, but if you sign up when registering a domain name you'll get the service free for a year. The trial provides two e-mail addresses per Web site.
Dot Com Mail is targeted at small companies that don't own their own in-house e-mail systems and have not yet registered a domain name. The company will offer a similar free trial to those who already own their domain names, but not until later this year, said Doug Wolford, NSI's senior vice president of marketing and sales.
"This is a persistent e-mail address that lasts a company's lifetime," Wolford said. "You can change ISPs or Web hosting companies without having to change your address."
Free Web-based mail service is available from numerous providers such as Yahoo and RocketMail. But they generally require that you receive your e-mail at their domain address. Some providers, such as NET@DDRESS, offer the ability to pick up messages through your e-mail client -- not just your browser -- which is preferable if you like to keep messages on your hard drive. If you want to read e-mail offline, look for a service that offers this feature.
Dot Com Mail is available now, and you can get e-mail at a new address immediately after registering, according to NSI. The free trial offer includes 24-hour phone support for setting up accounts, seven days a week.