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#Free domain hosting with email accounts how to
#Free domain hosting with email accounts software
#Free domain hosting with email accounts free

#Free domain hosting with email accounts free

ImprovMX, ForwardMX, and Pobox provide free or almost free email forwarding that you might use. Well if your registrar doesn’t provide email forwarding then you need to find separate email forwarding service.

Already own the email domain address but your registrar doesn’t provide email forwarding service.

So my advice is to check first with your registrar whether they provide email forwarding or not Several other registrars such as Namecheap, Google Domains, Hostgator, 1&1, Bluehost also provide email forwarding.

Already own the email domain address but your registrar is not Godaddy.

But how about the alternative to Godaddy? If you:

If you don’t use Gmail, for sure you could use other webmail services e.g: Yahoo,, etc. In this short tutorial, I use Gmail for the mailbox and Godaddy for the email forwarding.

#Free domain hosting with email accounts how to

I will show how to create free email accounts with your own domain address using email forwarding. The advantage of email forwarding over email hosting is alleviation of vendor lock-in, you can easily change your email forwarding and/or webmail service provider any time you want to. 100 email accounts limitation is fine with me, currently, I only need a few of it. In my case, I use email forwarding service from Godaddy which is available free for me. As for the email address, you need an email forwarding service to forward all emails addressed to your custom email address automatically to your webmail account. Personally, I use Google Gmail because I like the interface, 15GB of free storage space, spam security protection and of course its integration with other Google service. For the mailbox, you can use one of the popular webmail service available free on the internet.

With email forwarding, you break the tie between your mailbox and your address so you could use different service providers. In standard email hosting service, both your email address (your identity) and your mailbox (your email account and storage) are provided by the same service provider.

#Free domain hosting with email accounts software

It is a standard feature in email client software so I never thought that this capability also exists on the server side that can be used as an alternative to email hosting if combined with webmail service like Gmail, Yahoo, etc. The typical use of email forwarding that I know of is, especially in a large corporation, the managers would forward the emails addressed to them to their respective secretaries for processing and screening out. Frankly, I’ve never taken this email forwarding seriously before. Indeed, besides the free single email account, Godaddy also provides free email forwarding for up to 100 email accounts. However, it only gives me one mailbox with 1GB of storage which doesn’t meet my requirement for several mailboxes. My domain registrar, Godaddy, actually provides a free email hosting as a bonus for buying the domain name from them. This would mean additional cost although there is few email hosting that offers free plan such as Zoho Mail. The common solution would be to subscribe to an email hosting service. Later on, I have a need to create several email accounts with the same domain address. I already own an internet domain name that I use for my website.