Estaban started this topic @ 10:38 on 27/05/2003
A friend of mine has stumbled across what he thinks is a niche market selling what I can best describe as novelty email addresses.
He describes it as working like this, he buys a domain name which he thinks a specific group of people might want to have as their email address, they choose what they want before the @
As he and I understand it at the moment, he can sell up to 50 email addresses if he purchases the domain from someone like UKReg.com, each of these can then be diverted to the customers usual email address.
Obviously this means that the customer can only use the address for incoming mail and will still need to use their current email address for outgoing mail. He believes that they will still sell but it would be better if he could offer them a full email service.
Putting aside what you think of the idea, does anyone know whether there is any way someone without any technical ability could set up a full email service or even better, can you buy in such a service either without it costing the earth.
Thanks
RE: Email service.
innovateur | 27/05/2003 11:35 AM
The solution is to become a partner with one or more of these firms and set up as an internet service provider yourself but using their infrastructure. Companies such as http://www.123reg.co.uk (though they have annoying pop-ups) offer such facilities as do an increasing number of ISP providers - from Big Daddy to ... ventures on line http://www.venturesonline.com/partners/index.html
Search for Domain Name Registration, go to their site, and look for partner programmes. These programmes are only run by the main provider - many ISP's out there use other peoples infrastructure.
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RE: Email service.
nogeeks | 27/05/2003 11:51 AM
Estaban -
This may or may not be of interest, but anyway!
If for example I was to register www.myaddress.com my email address might be me@myaddress.com. If I go into my email application, under preferences, I can set my "email address" or "reply to email address" to me@myaddress.com
Then whenever I send an email to somebody it looks like it comes form me@myaddress.com.
Regards -
- N
RE: Email service.
AsMustard | 27/05/2003 01:22 PM
There is also mail.com and another.com who provide similar services, and, as far as I can tell, their service is largely free, with upgrades to POP boxes and the like. Having a look at what they do may give some indications as to what is possible.
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RE: Email service.
robinh | 27/05/2003 01:34 PM
If you're talking about setting up POP boxes for everyone then it may not be that complicated.
I have a music-related domain name and have given a number of friends and family members their own email address at this domain. For each new POP box I create, the hosting service provides a unique account name and password. The user then just needs to configure their email client with the incoming POP3 server address and the username/pw .. using their ISP's outgoing email server as normal.
I'm not a technical person, so I'm probably missing something here. It's worked OK like this for my purposes. However I guess if you are talking about selling on unique email addresses then you probably need to be in partnership with the email service as Innovateur suggests. And for example if people need tech support or if they have complaints about spam, etc, they will need to know who to contact.
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RE: Email service.
bruce | 27/05/2003 05:56 PM
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Originally posted by Estaban
A friend of mine has stumbled across what he thinks is a niche market selling what I can best describe as novelty email addresses.
Everyone.net provide an ISP service that would fit what you are looking - they run email services for sports clubs etc. From memory the cost is in the region of 1000 a year, + the cost of the domains, but you can get cheaper services if you are only running a few domains. Its easy to buy a domain with webmail / POP service for less than £10 a year, so the trick would be to get hold of desirable domains that people would want... however, there are many that have beaten you too it here, and it is still easy to get free full featured webmail services. Again, it all depends on the desirability of your domain. http://www.netidentity.com/ is one of the larger companies - it started off by registering peoples surnames.
Bruce