Your Own Internet Domain (1&1)

A few years ago while I was teaching a class at Plymouth State University I was focusing a chapter on Internet technology. As part of it I was educating the class about Internet Domains and how ‘everything works’ on the Internet and World-Wide-Web (note: many people consider think they are the same but the WWW is actually a sub-set of the Internet) and as part of my lecture I decided to look into buying my own domain.

I had seen ads for ‘hosted’ domains in PC Magazine provided by 1&1 Internet, Inc and as I investigated further I realize that was the way to go. I won’t go into the technical details regarding how domains work but rather, I’ll point out what you get for a very low cost. Realize that 1&1 has a number of different packages that serve the needs of the individual or large business. Additionally their documentation and help is outstanding so almost anyone with a minimal knowledge of technology can be successful with them.

I have the 1&1 beginner package that costs $3.99 per month….yes…for about $48 per year I get the following (but realize I actually end up only using a small part of it):

• The domain www.carpentiere.net
• This blog site (blog.carpentiere.net)
• Up to 600 email addresses attached to the domain (such as dave@carpentiere.net)
• 10GB of web space
• 2GB of email space
• An assortment of free tools, etc….

So….for $48.00 per year you can set up a Blog, reserve (or actually create a web site on your own domain) and issue email addresses to all your family members, etc.

What if you don’t want a blog or web site?….well my family and I do have email addresses from our local ISP (Metrocast Cablevision) but for some reason they insist on blocking all email coming from some pretty popolar domains (yahoo.com for example). This way we control our destiny.

If this is something that interests you please make sure to visit 1&1 by clicking on this icon (because I supposedly get something out of it if you end up joining):

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