Personal/professional e-mail domain - how to?

All,

I have a friend that has a small business and no web site
(and he wants to keep it that way). Currently he uses
e-mail forwarding to have a professional looking e-mail
address (i.e. Jim@findbooks.com). Due to a problem with his
ISP he will be leaving. What he wants is his own domain
that he controls (but not hosts) for e-mail only.

How is this done if there is no web hosting involved? Can
he still register a domain and place it with whatever host
he wants? So far all I have found is places for web hosting
and e-mail, not just e-mail. Any other ideas?


Dave,

On Fri, 18 May 2007 11:20:07 -0400, Dave Boland <NoSpam@stny.rr.com>
wrote:

>All,
>
>I have a friend that has a small business and no web site
>(and he wants to keep it that way). Currently he uses
>e-mail forwarding to have a professional looking e-mail
>address (i.e. Jim@findbooks.com). Due to a problem with his
>ISP he will be leaving. What he wants is his own domain
>that he controls (but not hosts) for e-mail only.
>
>How is this done if there is no web hosting involved? Can
>he still register a domain and place it with whatever host
>he wants? So far all I have found is places for web hosting
>and e-mail, not just e-mail. Any other ideas?
>
>
>Dave,


I imagine a lot of registrars/hosts probably offer this, I know for a
fact Godaddy does as I have a hosting account with them. they have a
few different email accounts like 1 email address and domain for like
$10 a year or something, 5 email addresses / 1 domain $20 a year, etc.

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Dave Boland wrote:
> All,
>
> I have a friend that has a small business and no web site (and he wants
> to keep it that way). Currently he uses e-mail forwarding to have a
> professional looking e-mail address (i.e. Jim@findbooks.com). Due to a
> problem with his ISP he will be leaving. What he wants is his own
> domain that he controls (but not hosts) for e-mail only.
>
> How is this done if there is no web hosting involved? Can he still
> register a domain and place it with whatever host he wants? So far all
> I have found is places for web hosting and e-mail, not just e-mail. Any
> other ideas?
>
>
> Dave,
>
Not a recommendation per se - but have a look at 1and1, they offer a
pretty reasonably priced eMail service. I do use them as registrar for
my UK domains.

Paul R

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Dave Boland <NoSpam@stny.rr.com> wrote:

>
> How is this done if there is no web hosting involved? Can
> he still register a domain and place it with whatever host
> he wants? So far all I have found is places for web hosting
> and e-mail, not just e-mail. Any other ideas?


I use namecheap as a registrar, and they offer free email forwarding.