Webmail service with POP access : suggestions ?

[Dean Sas]

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Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>> Heh thats called owning your own domain, then you can take it to whom ever you 
>> want to provide the service, including doing it your self , but you dont have 
>> to, there are plenty of hosting companies out there, and as long as you keep 
>> paying the domain registration per year ( most of the time less than $10 USD
>>  per year ) you OWN the domain and and take it anywhere 
> 
> Oh, that sounds great, and affordable !
> So if I understand you well, e-mail and web site addresses go in pair ?
> If I want to own my e-mail address, what I must actually do is buy a domain name in fact, so even if I don't need/use it, I am also entitled to have my own web site address ? One doesn't go without the other ?

Broadly speaking a domain is just a registered computer name, an email
address is just a user on that computer in the form of user at domain.com.
You can also use the domain.com to serve web pages or host code
repositories - it depends on what services you purchase from your
hosting provider, most tend to bundle email and web pages together as a
minimum.

> Ah, okay.
> 
> But being just a consumer, an average joe, I have no clue how to buy a domain, is there a worldwide institution responsible for attributing and keeping track and selling all the domain names in existence ? How can I contact them to buy a domain of my liking ?
> Also, say I succeed and I own the domain, say <mydomain>. Then in practice, how do I approach my ISP so that they let me use my domain name instead of theirs, for my web site and e-mail addresses ? I assume they are LEGALLY forced to rename my site and e-mail addresses ? Otherwise, how the hell am I gonna get them to do it.... :-/

There are single entities responsible for different TLDs such as .com or
.org and also per country entities responsible for .uk, and another for
.fr etc. Usually though they only deal with bulk registrations so you
buy from a reseller. You should be able to find plenty of such companies
via a web search.

In practice you wouldn't want your ISP (meaning your connection
provider) to host your domain on their servers, as this would mean every
time you change ISP you would have to contact the new one to register
your domain with them. Also many ISPs don't offer this. The better way
is to find a 3rd party hosting provider, again a quick search for "web
hosting" will get you lots of results, often your hosting provider will
also register a domain on your behalf.

Regards,

Dean
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