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To: Raptech who wrote (68937)	3/2/2010 11:46:46 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 110655

I pay a fee once a year for the domain renewal, email hosting and server space. It's not that much. He's a friend and I have known him for 20 years. My site will be active one day when I start my business up. I was going to start a mail order business up back in 1991, had contacts all over the world and lots of information on mail order, but then we got busy at my family company and I put everything on the back burner. In early 1995 things really started to slow down with the family business, so I started on my mail order business again, but then I thought marketing a catalog with CD-ROM. That was all the rage back then, but then I got an Internet account in early 1994 and ditched my CompuServe and BBS accounts. Then I seen I could market my products over the Internet, at a very low cost than catalog or CD-ROM, so I started to learn HTML, but then in late 1995 our family business started to get really busy again and I had to put my plans on the back burner once again. In mid 2009 we closed our family business after 25 years. So now my future plans are to start a business, with that domain name, at some point in the future. So if I were you go for it, get a domain, and some server space for posting stuff and your own personal POP email address. You won't regret it.

To: Raptech who wrote (68937)	3/2/2010 11:49:32 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

I pay $9 a year to Go Daddy for my domain. If you set up the email as Catch All there's no extra fee and literally anything addressed to your domain gets delivered, very useful for simple sorting. For instance my customers use support@mydomain.com, my friends use Joe@mydomain.com and anything to do with "my" dog park is dogpark@mydomain.com and so on. If your mail's sorted by your host you might have to pay for extra email accounts depending on the host's terms. Go Daddy offers a simple business card type webpage for free instead of an under construstion page.