http://www.eakes.org/79/avoid-lock-in-how-to-get-your-own-email-address/ Software Engineering, Social Technology, Product Design Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:13:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.eakes.org/79/avoid-lock-in-how-to-get-your-own-email-address/comment-page-1/#comment-31 eugene Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:51:49 +0000 http://www.eakes.org/?p=79#comment-31 Michael, You can achieve something very similar to what you are describing - a personalized URL and an email address that you control with <a href="http://www.freeyourid.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.freeyourid.com/</a> Freeyourid allows you to register your personalized domain, e.g. <a href="http://michael.eakes.name/" rel="nofollow">http://michael.eakes.name/</a> and your email address would be michael@eakes.name You can forward the URL and the email address anywhere you want. Not only that but michael.eakes.name would also be your OpenID login! The best part is that this costs you the same as registering a .com domain but can be done in 30 seconds flat. Users also don't have to know anything about DNS or MX records. Michael, You can achieve something very similar to what you are describing – a personalized URL and an email address that you control with http://www.freeyourid.com/
Freeyourid allows you to register your personalized domain, e.g. http://michael.eakes.name/ and your email address would be michael@eakes.name You can forward the URL and the email address anywhere you want. Not only that but michael.eakes.name would also be your OpenID login!
The best part is that this costs you the same as registering a .com domain but can be done in 30 seconds flat. Users also don’t have to know anything about DNS or MX records.

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