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Forwarding to a personal Gmail or Hotmail, or reading the domain mailbox directly

The short answer: forwarding your domain mail to a personal Gmail or Hotmail looks like the simplest way to have everything in one place, but it comes at a cost:…

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Which e-mail is which: account e-mail, domain contact e-mail, mailbox and support e-mail

The short answer: you have, at least, four kinds of e-mail around you, and mixing them up is behind many notices that “do not arrive”. The account e-mail is for…

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Your domain mailbox in Outlook.com or Outlook on the web: what works and where the limits are

The short answer: Outlook.com and Outlook on the web were built for Microsoft mailboxes. The option to add other providers’ accounts there has changed over time and may not exist…

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Your domain contact details: why they must be real, and how to keep them up to date

The short answer: when you register a domain, your details (name, e-mail, phone, address) are tied to it as the holder. Registries require them to be true and current: it…

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The Gmail app or the Outlook app for your domain mailbox: phone and computer compared

The short answer: both apps read a mailbox on your own domain over IMAP, with the same settings: server mail.yourdomain, IMAP on port 993 with SSL/TLS, SMTP on 465 with…

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Changing who owns a domain: a contact update or a change of registrant, and what to expect

The short answer: changing the holder’s e-mail or phone is a contact update. Changing who the holder is (from a person to the company, or from one company to another)…

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A domain or subdomain opens the wrong site: the document root and how to check it

The short answer: each domain and subdomain on a hosting account points to a folder (the “document root”) and shows what is in that folder. If one shows another’s site,…

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Accents and special characters in domain names: what is allowed, and what to do instead

The short answer: an ordinary domain name can only contain the letters a to z without accents, digits and hyphens. So a name like “cafézinho” or “coração” cannot be written…

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Forgotten subdomains and DNS records that point nowhere: how they get hijacked

The short answer: when you stop using a service but forget the DNS record that pointed to it (a CNAME to a shop, a blog or an application you cancelled),…

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Leaving a Hotmail address for e-mail on your own domain: contacts, old mail and telling people

The short answer: moving from a Hotmail or Outlook.com address to e-mail on your own domain comes in four parts: create the new mailbox, bring the contacts, decide what to…