Domains - A guide to registering one - Part 2
Domain registered - What now?
Within 24hrs - 48hrs your domain will be
registered and it will be yours. If you type your domain name
into a web browser you will probably be taken to a holding page
indicating "Coming Soon" and your domain is yours to do with
what you like.
One feature that the two companies mentioned
on the previous page is free e-mail forwarding and what this
means is that you can immediately create some new e-mail
addresses for your domain and start using a more personalised
e-mail address.
You will still need another e-mail service,
usually supplied to you by your ISP, but you are going to do
some clever things with your e-mail client to make it look like
the e-mail is coming from your own domain name. Anybody who
receives an e-mail from you will see your personalised domain
name and they can reply to your new personalised addresses.
I use 123-reg for my domains and Outlook 2002
as my e-mail client. Because of this the screen shots I create
will be for these two systems.
However you will be able to see what we are doing
and you should be able to replicate the results no matter which
domain holding company you are using or what e-mail client you
prefer.
Creating new e-mail forwarders
Log into your account with your domain holding
company. Select your new domain and select to change the
settings for the domain name.
123-reg users will do this in the following manner:
You can see the obvious option to chose here
(Update E-Mail forwarding), once you've chosen it your screen
should look like this:
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Once you are at this screen you can start to create some new e-mail addresses.
In the left-hand column create a new address for
your domain name, in the right-hand box insert the full e-mail
address that messages should be forwarded to (The address or
addresses given to you by your ISP).
By default all domains should have the following two addresses set:
postmaster
hostmaster
Other than that the choice is yours and you
can add more or less as many addresses as you like, all of them
nice and personal for you and/or your family.
Once you've added a few address your screen
should look something like this:
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Once you've created a few addresses you can
exit the control panel for your domain name. These will come
into effect within the next few minutes and it is time to
configure your e-mail client to start using these addresses.
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