If you’ve ever considered buying a domain name for the primary purpose of creating a custom email address such as your-name@your-domain.com, this tutorial from Ask Leo! is just what you need. In it, Leo Notenboom explains domain registration, email forwarding, …[Continue]
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How to Build a Personlized Homepage
If you’ve never created a personalized homepage, or custom start-up page for your browser, there are a lot to choose from. My personal favorite is iGoogle but Pageflakes looks interesting too. A custom homepages is a place to gather all …[Continue]
How to Own Your Email Address Forever
If you are tired of changing your email address whenever your ISP changes, buying your own domain name is a simple way to assure that you can keep the same email address year after year. A domain costs about $8 …[Continue]
Locking a Domain Record
Today’s tip is for anyone who owns a domain name. Because of an ICANN (Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers) policy change implemented late last year, it is possible to lose control of a domain if you fail to …[Continue]
Writing URLs
When writing about your website, should you include the “http://” in your URL? Here’s a rule of thumb. For offline use, such as business cards and envelopes, drop the “http://” prefix. But for anything electronic, such as word processing documents …[Continue]
Long URLs
If your Web site is on a free server (such as space provided by your Internet service provider or Yahoo! Geocities) you might suffer from long URL syndrome. You know what I mean. Long Web site addresses that look like …[Continue]
