RSSAOL to Launch Custom Domain Service
By Ed Oswald | Published May 18, 2006, 4:50 PM
AOL has plans to offer a custom domain service, BetaNews has learned. The offering, called AOL MYeAddress, will begin as a beta test later Thursday, with an official launch coming this summer.
Users would be able to select a custom domain to use in place of their regular aol.com address. From there, the user could link up to six additional screen names to use the new domain. The service would only be open to AOL subscribers, and the screen names could be across multiple accounts, an AOL spokesperson told BetaNews.
"If you set up a domain and want to invite your cousin who is also an AOL member, but has his or her own account, you can all use the same domain," she said.
The service will not deactivate a user's screen name; mail sent to the screen name as well as the custom domain would go to the same mailbox. The company also plans to eventually offer tools that would allow for a domain owner to create a Web site as well.
Microsoft launched a similar service in November of last year, called Windows Live Custom Domains. The program allows the user to have up to 40 e-mail accounts, along with addresses that would work with MSN Messenger and MSN Spaces.
Additionally, a user can point their domains to their MSN Space, however a custom Web site is not available. That option is covered under Microsoft's new Office Live product.
Windows Live Custom Domains is a free service, as is AOL MYeAddress while in beta. Office Live is currently free in beta form, but will eventually cost up to $30 per month depending on the package selected.
AOL has not detailed pricing for MyeAddress when the service officially debuts.
just what we need more dumba** people clutering up the internet with their s*** webpages, ill tell you what, if my google searches for porn get slowed down just one nanosecond cause of this im gonna be pissed.
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|Aol is like the wart on my B****...no matter what you do it grows back
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|How is this a better product than registering your domain for $9/year and hosting it on the cheap for $10/month with your own tld account, email accounts, website (if you want) and far more features and control than MSN or AOL?
Maybe it is better because it allows net-ignorant people to have access to these things. Just what we need, more dumb screennames popping up on the right hand side of the @ this time. Now instead of ilovemypinkpoodle@aol.com we have luserboi@ilovemypinkpoodle.com well there's real progress let me tell you. Wonder what is coming next...no I don't...I am not sure I can face it.
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|"Maybe it is better because it allows net-ignorant people to have access to these things. Just what we need, more dumb screennames popping up on the right hand side of the @ this time.
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It is better, not only for the "net-ignorant" but for others as well. And more "dumb screennames"? LOL. What is Reap_r? Sounds dumb to me.
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|Yeah thats a good idea.. Does no one remember the 90s when you'd never get mail from AOLers because they kept sending it to just your username and not including the @domain.tld? Now we're going to have people giving out and signing up for stuff with domains that only work for AOLers. I run a messageboard and I already get enough bounces from @aol.com addresses now ill be getting tons more. Thanks AOL
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|Does no one remember the 90s when you'd never get mail from AOLers because they kept sending it to just your username and not including the @domain.tld?
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Darned if I remember that and I've had AOL for years and years. Don't even recall any of my AOL friends having that problem either. But, the technology has improved considerably since the 90's.
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|ma-e-address.
Sounds fishy to me.
Mmmm...mahi-mahi anyone?
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|FREE MAHI MAHI!
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