cost of own dot com email address

[eggssell]

burst a ball i want to say up front i am noob about all this so please speak in dumb ass english

second of all i have no idea if what i am saying is actually a thing

basically i am sick of when i change internet providers i have to go into every farking account i belong to and change the email. Now i know the easy solution is just use a gmail account. But honestly im not a fan of those public emails.

so i know when you buy domains or webspace (?) and shit you can have emails w that domain name. Like cupe's ausdjforums.com emails.

how much does it cost?

And what does it involve?

I figure i will always need an email, well at least until they start installing zuckerberg communication chips in the back of our necks. So i thought it was worth looking at.

[Cupe]

If you want eggs@ausdjforums.com I can give it to you for free m8

Otherwise it's the cost of a domain which is around $10ish dollars a year (most often 2 years initially upfront) then you configure it in hosting account.

Not sure if you HAVE to have hosting to setup email accounts or not, someone can confirm that (I've always bought both together so not sure).

Not much, but like I said if you want an @ausdjforums.com one I'm happy to set it up for you for da freez

[Mitch]

You need hosting to have email.

Can either go with a cheap hosting with net virtue, or office 365 offers better email hosting (exchange activesync etc) but it may be a tad more exxy

[Cupe]

Oh yea duh you need hosting cause of the mailserver.

Brained out there

Yea the cheapest NV hosting is fuck all and would be all you need. If you get it we can set it up for you if you want.

[eggssell]

cool. and thanks for the offer cupe, but yeh wouldn't mind coming up with my own.

so whats the cost of setting up the net virtue thang. does it need hardware too (servers and shyte)?

[Cupe]

You don't need to do shit but sign up

https://www.netvirtue.com.au/economy-hosting

nvSaver

$1.50 a month (you pay 2 years in advance which still = fuck all)

[eggssell]

damn its that simple. freaking schweet

chur

[Cupe]

[Kodiak]

Or you could just get a Gmail account for $0 per month.

[Cupe]

Now i know the easy solution is just use a gmail account. But honestly im not a fan of those public emails.

[BeatLeSS]

Make sure you get your hosting with enough space - This will be an issue as time progresses, and by the sounds of it you'll be having it for a while. Emails can take up some crazy space once they start getting attachments on it, etc.

[Kodiak]

Now i know the easy solution is just use a gmail account. But honestly im not a fan of those public emails.

I did read that. But seriously this is a huge amount of effort to go to just because of some perceived paranoia or hipster mentality of refusing to use a popular service that does the job perfectly fine.

[BeatLeSS]

Now i know the easy solution is just use a gmail account. But honestly im not a fan of those public emails.

I did read that. But seriously this is a huge amount of effort to go to just because of some perceived paranoia or hipster mentality of refusing to use a popular service that does the job perfectly fine.

No good story began with "i'm a lazy WHALE conformist"

[Mitch]

I could have this running in the same time it takes to sign up to gmail.

Also it's good to have control over your shizz

[yizzle]

i will happily take an @ausdjforums.com account.

OffTopic...

[eggssell]

Now i know the easy solution is just use a gmail account. But honestly im not a fan of those public emails.

I did read that. But seriously this is a huge amount of effort to go to just because of some perceived paranoia or hipster mentality of refusing to use a popular service that does the job perfectly fine.

I don't know if its paranoia, its more back when I used public email (hotmail) it would always inevitably end up in spam. since I stopped using it about 14 years ago, I have never had spam which I couldnt trace exactly where it came from.

things may have improved since then but for now that's my experience with public email.

in terms of "hipster mentality of refusing to use a popular service", I never go pearl jam and just say no for no purposes. in reality they were still controlled by the masses they just did the opposite. stupid...

I do have my opinions and personal beliefs which is why I don't go for any scumerberg stuff because the guys a dick.

[eggssell]

Make sure you get your hosting with enough space - This will be an issue as time progresses, and by the sounds of it you'll be having it for a while. Emails can take up some crazy space once they start getting attachments on it, etc.

tats cool ill move to a mailbox on my pc

anyways yeh i think i will take this path. hope its easy

[Mitch]

Make sure you get your hosting with enough space - This will be an issue as time progresses, and by the sounds of it you'll be having it for a while. Emails can take up some crazy space once they start getting attachments on it, etc.

tats cool ill move to a mailbox on my pc

anyways yeh i think i will take this path. hope its easy

I would be happy to whip it up for you for no charge boss

[eggssell]

hmmmmmm

its saying i need to register the trading name...

[Mitch]

are you trying to buy a .au ??

You need an abn to get a .au

No restrictions on a .com

[eggssell]

oh otay. cool. i got to find a .com thats available first.

anyways ill holler if i have probs

[Cupe]

me@bigdanglyeggs.com

[eggssell]

lols. random, netvirtue saying one i want is not available but on netregistry its available

[Cupe]

Do a whois lookup on the domain

[eggssell]

i did says its not owned by anyone.

for some reason net virtue is not taking any .com regos. keeps saying unavailable. even tried a random jumble of numbers and letters.

oh well may just register it at netregistry and then come over to net virtue for the hosting