How To Make An Email Address

By: Emma Drosy
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:08:22
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You can have an email address for free - in fact you can have several of them if you want. An email address gives you the facility to communicate through the Internet with friends and even strangers. It also gives you a certain measure of anonymity. This has encouraged people to use email addresses for the sort of communication with others that they might never have thought possible through ordinary (snail) mail.

Making an email address is quite simple. Many email service providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo provide the services free of charge. Others like gmail require that you should be introduced by an existing member. This helps everyone in the long run by ensuring that every member is a genuine and respectable person, and prevents misuse.

To create an email in your name, simply visit the site of the email provider. For example, if you want to make an email in Hotmail, go to hotmail.com and select free email. If you want a yahoo mail, go to yahoo.com and select email from there.

You will be required to give basic details about yourself. In reputed sites you can safely give your personal details, as these are not misused. You will be asked indicate your general preferences and also whether you could be sent information on specific subjects. You can choose items of interest to you. For example, if you are likely to be shopping, you may opt for shopping information to be mailed to you. If you don't want any information, you can refrain from choosing any one.

You can also have an email address that makes use of your own domain name. In this case you may have to spend a small amount of money, but the email address that you get will be unique and bear your individual or your company name. In this case you can choose your user name and a domain name. Domain name is what comes after the user name in the email address, like hotmail.com. In case of your own domain name this can read like yourname@yourdomainname. This could be your company name or your family name or something like that making it unique to you. Usually hosting companies offer multiple usernames with a domain name.

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