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| AOL Offers Personalized Email Domains for Free to All Web Users AOL has announced that, starting in September, it will make personalized email domains available for free to all Web users. AOL is the first company to offer this service, which will be called AOL My eAddress, at no charge. With AOL My eAddress, anyone can set up and register a completely customized email address using .COM or .NET domains, and add up to 100 additional identities onto their personal domain, all at no charge. For example, someone could choose a domain that family, friends, teams, social organizations and others could use, for example "anyname@mygroupname.com", and other members within that group could have their own email identity using that domain. Or, Individuals can also choose to set up a new personalized address with the popular and widely-used AOL.com domain, at no charge. Consumers will be able to use their personalized My eAddress domain as an email address, as their AIM address to send and receive instant messages and access their Buddy List feature, to access features across the AOL network, and, coming soon, as the address of their own personal Web page on the free AIM Pages social networking service. The free Web-based My eAddress email service is the latest complement to AOL.com and AIM.com Mail products, which provide choices and flexibility for online consumers and convenient access from any computer. Earlier, AOL has announced that its AOL.com email will be available for free as a new value for its longtime members and as it opens up its flagship communication feature to a Web wide Internet audience. Among the features that will be available with the free AOL My eAddress service: - Ability to completely customize an email address using a personalized .COM or .NET domain and identity, e.g., "you@thenameyouwant.com". - Setup, registration and the use of a My eAddress email domain and identity is all free (one domain per user), as is the ability to invite other people to join their personalized domain. Each account holder can add up to 100 additional personal email identities associated with their domain, all managed through an easy Web-based control panel. - Ability to check email from My eAddress and AOL.com domains through one mailbox accessible from the Web at www.aol.com, open mail clients (like Outlook and Thunderbird) that use the IMAP protocol, and through the new beta version of the AOL "Streamliner" product. - High quality spam and anti-virus protection to help keep a user's email box free from junk mail and harmful viruses. - 2 GB of email storage, which can be accessed from any Web-enabled computer, and a search feature that makes it easy for users to find messages in their personal mailbox, sent mail, or stored mail. - An Address Book that also includes presence indication to see when contacts are online and able to receive instant messages. - Integrated access to AOL's other free Web-based products and services, including AOL Calendar and, coming soon, AOL Pictures, a comprehensive online digital picture service that offers free and unlimited storage of digital photos. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |