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By James Gordon

Real Estate Agent with Sibcy Cline Realtors®

April 15, 2007 11:11 PM

I have heard a lot of talk about email addresses lately. A lot of people have the opinion that a email not connected to your broker is a good thing. Some of these people are commenting that you can get you own email at your own domain for 50.00 a year.

Well here is a less expensive solution. AOL offers a free email account at your selection of domain names. This sounds like a better way to go.

We all know how tight marketing money can be and why pay for something if you can get it for free?

Make Up Your Own Email Address With AOL® My eAddress

AOL is the first and only free email provider that lets you make up your own unique, personalized email address from scratch. Not just the part before the @ -- we're talking about the whole thing -- like you@thenameyouwant.com.

By choosing a custom domain (the part after the @ symbol), you could make up email addresses for your club, team, family or small business. If it's available, it's yours.

Invite up to 100 friends or family members to be a part of your domain -- so for example, your friend could have yourfriend@thenameyouwant.com. (Choose either a .com or .net suffix, whichever you prefer.)

Store up to 2GB of data per mailbox, enough to keep tons of old messages and attached files. You can also use your personalized email address to send and receive instant messages on AIM.

And it's easy to check your email from any Internet-connected computer on the AOL.com Web site, on either PC or Mac, or even from other email programs like Microsoft Outlook® or Outlook Express®.

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John Caylor

Infinity Financial Group - Post Falls, ID

Post Falls, ID Mortgages

James,

Thanks for the info!

Apr 15, 2007 11:40 PM

Mike (Inspector Mike) Parks

Inspector Mike - Circleville, OH

Inspector Mike

James

My Internet Explorer shows this post, only this one, as a possible phishing site.

I know it is not. Could be some of the wording.

I reported it to MicroSoft as not a phishing site.

Apr 15, 2007 11:47 PM

Greg Cremia

Shore Realty of the Outer Banks - Nags Head, NC

Ever see the commercials were AOL is bragging about blocking billions of emails? Some of those could be clients but you will never know because they delete them from the server and don't notify you. In this case free can be very expensive.

Apr 16, 2007 12:09 AM

Burland & Edmands Stirling

Coldwell Banker - Madison, CT

Because we are independent contractors and spend a considerable amount of money on "branding" having your own email account makes sense, the good news is you can probably forward the aol to your company email if you want to keep down the number of locations you are storing and checking emails. Convienience and efficiency are equally important as independence.

Apr 16, 2007 12:46 AM

James Gordon

Sibcy Cline Realtors® - Cincinnati, OH

REALTOR, PBD SFR SRS

America Online, Inc. ("AOL") does not authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer network (the AOL Network") to accept, transmit or distribute unsolicited bulk e-mail sent from the Internet to AOL members. In addition, Internet e-mail sent, or caused to be sent, to or through the AOL Network that makes use of or contains invalid or forged headers, invalid or non-existent domain names or other means of deceptive addressing will be deemed to be counterfeit. Any attempt to send or cause such counterfeit e-mail to be sent to or through the AOL Network is unauthorized. Similarly, e-mail that is relayed from any third party's mail servers without the permission of that third party, or which employs similar techniques to hide or obscure the source of the e-mail, is also an unauthorized use of the AOL Network. AOL does not authorize anyone to send e-mail or cause e-mail to be sent to the AOL Network that violates AOL's Terms of Service.

Sounds to me like they are just blocking spammers

Apr 16, 2007 12:47 AM

I don't send any spam but they block some of the emails I send to their users without telling anyone. If I send an email to someone with an AOL account I have to follow up with a phone call to make sure they received it.

What is an invalid header?

Apr 16, 2007 12:53 AM

Carmen Offutt

La Rosa Realty - Altamonte Springs, FL

So far all the computer and internet experts I know would not recommend AOL. However I do agree that getting your own email is better than depending on the one your broker provided for you. I would like to hear of an alternate option.

Apr 16, 2007 01:06 AM

Justin Kaatz

ASAP Mortgage - Madison, WI

CMP

I always laugh to myself when I see an agent or a broker with a "@yahoo.com" or "@hotmail.com" or even "@gmail.com." It looks so unprofessional, and it also looks like you're too cheap to have a domain with an email address.

Also, I would never recommend AOL. I know of a lot of websites that permanently ban all traffic coming from AOL.

Apr 16, 2007 03:15 AM

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