RSSAOL to Offer Free Custom E-Mail Domains
By Ed Oswald | Published August 9, 2006, 1:08 PM
Following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Google, AOL said Wednesday that it would begin providing a custom e-mail domain services for its customers beginning in September. Like its competitors, AOL My eAddress would be provided at no charge.
The service would include the registration of a .com or .net domain, plus up to 100 personal e-mail accounts on that address. As well as using their personal domain for e-mail, AOL says it would allow customers to use it as their AIM screen name and to access restricted areas of the AOL network.
"AOL is about to make online communications more personal than ever before," AOL Communication Products head Roy Ben-Yoseph said in Wednesday's announcement. "The most popular Internet activity is email, yet many people don't have an online identity that's truly personal and meaningful to them."
Users would have the choice of either accessing their e-mail through the AOL.com Web site, or an e-mail client that supports the IMAP protocol. The service will include anti-virus and junk mail functionality, and give users 2GB of storage.
AOL said it will also integrate My eAddress with other services across the company's network, including Calendar and eventually AOL Pictures.
While no Web hosting functionality is included in the service at this time, AOL eventually plans to allow users to create a Web page on the domain through the AIM Pages social networking service.
You get an email address that looks prettier, but I am almost sure you can't move the domain (probably owned by AOL) i.e. it wouldn't allow to keep your email address if you move to a better internet service provider (ISP)
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AOL will be free. This servie is free.
Why would you have to cancel service with AOL (being free), to use another ISP?
No need to transfer the domain. Just keep the AOL account, it's not like it's going to cost you anything.
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|Since when is anything from AOL honestly free without any user data/advertising obligation?
so where do we sign up? :P
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|does anyone care what aol is doing anymore? why do we give them a platform to speak on?
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|"does anyone care what aol is doing anymore? why do we give them a platform to speak on?"
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Because,thank the gods, we still live in a democracy, Paradise-FH-, that's why.
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|Some would argue it's a corporation-ocracy.
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|We do? Then how come no one - not the government and not the large corperations - ever listen to the general public?
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|Technically, we live in a democratic republic. That hasn't changed since 1776.
It's not really a *true* democracy.
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|Dude. Why stop them? They're getting so desparate to clean up their image that they're giving everything away free. Keep your mouth shut and take advantage of it. lol
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|Representative Democracy, to be specific. ;)
...just sayin'. *grin*
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|d'oh!
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|I'll stick with Google domains. ;)
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|Hopefully AOL will finally go belly up.
They have sucked for the longest time and all they have done is make people think that AOL is the Internet.
AOL is horrible and I hope they go out of business.
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|"Hopefully AOL will finally go belly up."
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You wish, Joe Dirt, but that will happen about the time ABC, NBC or CBS go. Many, many like AOL.
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|When AOL goes, so will WinAMP.
And for those about to argue with me. Last I checked, AOL owned WinAMP, which is why at the bottom of the AMP website there is AOL links
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|Sticking with WinAmp 2.91 isn't the worst idea in the world. I've had no problems with it, and don't care for the themes I could get with 5.x (And version 5 is stable anyway). WinAmp wouldn't magically stop working if AOL went under; further upgrades just wouldn't be released (maybe, depending on whether or not Nullsoft could pull out of AOL before it crashed).
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|When AOL goes, so will WinAMP.
Good.
Haven't used it since 2.9. Would not be at all sad to see it go.
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|yeah this is great i just registered my email sussie@143_clarkdale_rd.com
greeeat
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|I'm not even going to read this article, I just wanted to post something that I just read about AOL, check this out...
http://www.nytimes.com/2...mp;ei=5070&emc=eta1
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|It's Aug 9 and your just getting around to this story? Old news dude. Old news.
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|What are you talking about that article was published on August 9, 2006. How can it be old news?
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|www.drudgereport.com posted that story days ago.
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|"AOL is about to make online communications more personal than ever before,"
That seems a dangerous statement to make so soon after releasing search data that has now even been linked to at least one actual person. I'm not certain that AOL will recover from their latest mistake, even if they offer all their services for free.
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|Free is free. Might be good to use as a spam dump.
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