How to create a personal email domain and, more importantly, why should you? If you’re anything like me, you probably check your email a few times a day. Some days, that’s all it takes to feel as though the rest of the world has left you behind. To stay productive, I check our inbox frequently throughout the day; after all, so much new content is published every minute.
The problem is that many emails you receive are irrelevant. There are business emails and those emails that are personal to you. It would help if you had some way to filter out the rubbish and get to the stuff that really matters. It takes more than a junk filter and a spam folder!
The email that is personal to you is probably the most important. Jobs & careers, clients and bosses will come and go, but you will always need an email address as part of everyday living.
In this blog, we tell you why creating a personal domain email address is vital instead of using your business domain or standard Gmail address.
Why Create a Personal Email Domain?
A personal domain email address can stay with you through multiple careers and email service providers
There are many reasons you should create a personal email address.
- By creating a personal domain email address, you are separating the contents of your inbox from the rest of your business. This allows you to separate the subject matter from your work from your personal life. This is an essential step to blocking out the stress of email and breaking the cycle of constant checking.
- You get to decide what happens in your inbox. If you take control of your inbox and decide what is and isn’t essential in your life, then the stress and anxiety that comes from checking your inbox will be reduced.
- There is a security risk if you use your business email address for personal communication. This is because people at your workplace may monitor (and even read) email traffic.
- If you change your job, you lose your email address. With a personal email address -it’s your for life! This means you don’t have to keep changing your email address whenever you change your job or email service.
- It’s an essential part of your personal brand. With a personal email address comes a personal domain name. You may want to start your own website at some stage – perhaps if you become freelance. It’s an excellent place to share your CV, or even just post news about your family and keep control of your data.
- It looks good! It’s the internet equivalent of having a personalized number plate. It shows you are organized and take your digital life seriously. You don’t need to have @gmail.com after your name!
- Every app you use, every household service, and website you join needs an email address – if it’s your own personal address, you will always know which one you used.
- If it’s your name, it’s easy for people who want to contact you. Your address is just ‘your first name @ your full name .com”!
- It’s not expensive – you can sort this out for the cost of the annual renewal of a domain name and some email hosting.
How to Create a Personal Domain Email Address
Domain names at Video & Web come with an email address as standard
Anyone who is serious about creating a personal domain email address will have a domain name and web hosting sorted out before attempting this. This is essential to the success of your email address–you will need to have an email address that people can send emails to, and you will need to access this email address through a web-hosted email address.
- The first thing to do is find a domain name. I recommend first, that you check to see if your name is available. Ideally, you want to register the .com and .co.uk
- If your name has already gone, try adding your initials or title. You might want to see if a nickname is available, but you will want to keep this professional. Remember – you will be running your life from this address.
- You will also need a hosting account to store your email online. You can register your domain name and hosting at any online provider. Here at Video & Web, we offer a free email address with each domain name, and we think that’s excellent value.
Final Words: Key Takeaways
A personal domain and email address is a great way to keep your work and home life separate. There are many benefits to having your own domain, and it’s cheap to put it in place and maintain.
I recommend that everyone looks to register their own name as a domain as a critical step to taking control of your data and simplifying your online life.
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