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Thursday, February 22, 2007

A message for you@yourname.com . . . from me@myname.com

What today's debut of Google Apps means for simple souls like me who have been autocybersquatting on their personal yourname.com domains is that they can move those domains over to Google Apps for hosting and get some functionality from domains that have been little more than registry entries before now. Now you can have a Gmail account for the address you@yourname.com, where before you were stuck with you@gmail.com or something more suspect (you@hotmail.com, you100@aol.com, etc.).

Right now I'm leaning against making much use of my you@yourname.com address. I've been pretty happy with mysurname@gmail.com. But we'll see how it goes. What do you think, o wise readers who so rarely leave comments?

By the way, domains are dirt cheap these days. For years I had been under the semi-osmotic impression that they cost about $70 per year. Whether this was ever correct at a time when I believed it depends, I suppose, on the porosity of the various membranes involved. Regardless, they are now about $9 per year at GoDaddy.com.


posted at 11:39 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Bubbles said...

I vote yes for "you@yourname.com". I'd do that myself if my surname weren't already taken (my married surname as opposed to the full legal one). Last time I checked, some domain marketing firm had it.

February 23, 2007 9:54 AM  

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