Wanted a personal domain name for free ? well, it’s here AOL has just launched their new service called eAddress. With this service you could register any domain you want and get AOL to host your email for you at the selected domain for absolutely no costs at all. Currently the service is available for US customers only… and to only 1 domain per customer. And well, 1 per customer means 1 per cellular number that you use for registering the domain. AOL uses your cellular number to register the domain/verify your identity and send you the registration access code/pincode via SMS. only .com and .net domains are currently available
The 1, 2, many issues that this service has is that it does not enable you to delete email addresses one they are registered, but you could disable them by changing the passwords as long as you are the administrator for the domain. AOL would own the domain, You need to have an alternate email address and a cellular number capable of receiving SMS messages, there are advertisements splattered all over…. {I guess that’s an expected with free services}, and the current domains are restricted to .com and .net domains only.
With your personalized email address, you can send and receive all your email from your domain name, like you@thenameyouwant.com. Additionally, all mailboxes come with industry-leading spam and anti-virus protection from AOL.
You get upto 2GB storage, and you could invite other friends and family members (upto 100) to also have a personal email address at your AOL hosted eAddress for free. Well, the 1-100 friends/family members could be you yourself {{wink}} to use for storage…
You could access your email either via AOL Webmail or via IMAP or any email client like Microsoft Outlook. The best feature addition is that you could also use it to send IM’s via AIM.
Roy Ben-Yoseph, Director of Communication Products, AOL said (prior to the launch of this service):
AOL is about to make online communications more personal than ever before. The most popular Internet activity is email, yet many people don’t have an online identity that’s truly personal and meaningful to them. Starting next month, with the launch of its My eAddress service, AOL will make personalized email domains available to all online users at absolutely no cost. Not only can people customize an email address with their own personal domain and connect up to 100 other identities, giving families, teams, social organizations and small businesses a new way to represent themselves, but they’ll also be able to use it for instant messaging and as a Web page address. This is an opportunity that millions of people have been waiting for, and AOL is thrilled to be the first to provide it.
AOL My eAddress also integrates with other AOL services like AOL Calendar, AOL Pictures, and AOL Finance.
