Email no longer free

esuhl

A .co.uk domain only costs about £3.50 a year. If you get a more obscure suffix it could be even cheaper.

Then you can keep the same email address forever, and switch email hosting providers whenever you like.

donnajunkie

Save the important content of the mails you want to keep onto your system then use gmail, hotmail, yahoo etc.

cookie365

boliston wrote: »

Surely anyone even slightly IT literate would have their OWN email address rather than google/hotmail/etc ?

Not really.

Unless you think Google are going to stop offering free gmail addresses without giving any notice then the benefits of having your own domain aren't really that compelling.

Jivesinger

spadoosh wrote: »

There are other email providers?

I see a lot of job application forms and cant help but think badly of the people who use anything other than google (and its variants) or hotmail. ('@outllook.... dude you set that up on your pager?')

outlook.com and hotmail.com are equivalent - outlook.com being the newer version, so I'm not sure why you'd think badly of someone who had an outlook.com address.

It probably just means they're younger and the hotmail version of the name they wanted wasn't available any more when they signed up.

In fact that's probably indirect age discrimination if you're using that as a criterion when they apply for jobs...

stator

agree with others above. Buy a cheap domain and forward it on to gmail or whoever. .co.uk are good for this purpose

ThinkingOutLoud_2

jamesperrett wrote: »

But then you'll be paying for that domain - the OP wanted free email. However, I find it useful to have my own domain where I can give out different email addresses for different purposes.

True not free - but the costs are modest vs most ISPs and exactly as you say - you can use a dedicated easy to remember address for every service or provider (then you know who sold your data or is behind the endless spam).

And then the poster who thinks badly if it isn't gmail won't know what to think of you! Suggest you register spadoosh.com which will really fox the ultimate candidate quality tester into giving you that job.

kwikbreaks

My son registered rsehole.com at one time purely for the pleasure of sending emails to somebody using yuran@rsehole Looks like he still has it too

AndyPix

kwikbreaks wrote: »

My son registered rsehole.com at one time purely for the pleasure of sending emails to somebody using yuran@rsehole Looks like he still has it too

Brilliant !!!

elektra

GingerBob wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the advice and recommendations. I have been wondering about my own domain for a while now. Maybe this is the time to take the plunge. I'm also seriously looking at MAIL.COM with maybe GMAIL as a backup. This everyone.net appears not to have a facility to bulk export the emails, so I may be stuck with forwarding them all. Thanks, again. GB.

This may help
http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx

greatgimpo

esuhl wrote: »

A .co.uk domain only costs about £3.50 a year. If you get a more obscure suffix it could be even cheaper.

My .co.uk for 2 years is £16.78 inc VAT from Fasthosts - looks like it's on the expensive side!