Comments on: Opinions on personalized email domains?

By: Bruce Mewhinney

Bruce Mewhinney — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:54:16 +0000

Sort of on topic….

Dane, is SONIC.NET able to add the “.tv” Top-Level Domain option to those available in your TLD registration service? Or is this reserved to enom.tv (and enomcentral.com) and its chosen resellers?

By the way, I wonder what will happen to the “.tv” domains (I have one) if/when the tiny island country of Tuvalu gets covered by the rising Pacific Ocean? It’s already happening — search Google for keyword “Tuvalu” AND phrase “global warming”!

By: Tom Smith

Tom Smith — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:23:12 +0000

Eric, thanks for posting my email address on a public board, thats really gonna help with my already rediculous spam problem!

By: Andrew Merenbach

Andrew Merenbach — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:26:01 +0000

Hi! I think that this is a neat idea in terms of making family names accessible to end-users, but bob has a good point — owning the domain name prevents one from being tied to a particular service. Furthermore, what do you do if someone signs up for a personalized domain from you (say examplename.com) and then later decides that they perhaps want the domain name entirely for themselves? If no one else is using the domain name, would you allow the transfer? If not, would you allow negotiations between parties with a stake in the domain?

By: bob

bob — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:53:32 +0000

i have my own personalized domain, and use sonic.net to forward my email. if i drop sonic, i will still have my domain!

By: Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:31 +0000

Ya, .name just hasn’t taken off. It’s expensive – $35 a year, and I think there’s limited awareness and acceptance of the .four letter name too.

The idea with this surname.com offering is to provide an identifying personal email address at a simple to remember domain. It’s great when folks know your name, and you can tell them “my email is tom@smith.net” for example. No need to write it down, etc.

I’m also on the fence on the idea myself. I wonder if folks would adopt it or not, and it does have some costs.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:17:39 +0000

Isn't that exactly what the .name TLD is there for?

By: Randolph Garrett

Randolph Garrett — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:55:53 +0000

Oh, and no. I don’t own garrett.com or get any money from them and a thousand others, oy!

By: Randolph Garrett

Randolph Garrett — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:54:56 +0000

Ok Dane, what are you up to?! ROFL!

An all services ISP including ‘free’ hosting with ad support like FortuneCity? Mail.com, etc.? Oy!

Stay regional: California & most of Nevada!!! Please don’t go national like those other ISPs who then got corrupted and bloated like AT&T, Comcast, Concentric, Earthlink, etc.

Seriously, toughie to do like getting ‘rights’ to use of email redirect from “garrett.com” (if it exists) so that randy@garrett.com would work. Lots of surnames will reject but hey, could it hurt to try? Many the negotiations would be horrible for most common surnames and upon every user request for each new one.

Or is there a “shortcut”?

By: D.J. Capelis

D.J. Capelis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:51:25 +0000

I use capelis.dj

Granted, that’s more DNS hackery than you’ll usually be able to pull off… but… it was very much worth it.

By: Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:32:49 +0000

It’s a forward – so it is designed as a lifetime address. It could be pointed anywhere.

But, it is more expensive than domain registration. But, registration generally doesn’t include the forwarding and redirection functions.

So, cost is similar, but with your own domain you get infinite addresses and sites instead of one.

But, the surname address is a nice option!