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Anatomy of an email address
What can you have as an email account?
An email address is essentially made up of two parts - the bit before the
"@" sign and the bit after it.
The bit before the "@" sign can be virtually anything you want, including
"." if necessary to make it more readable. So, you could have
jackie@ or Jackie.Campbell@ or sales@ or sales.admin.office@ or any other
combination. Note that capitalisation, for now, makes no difference
and is ignored by 99% of servers, so for clarity, you can use capital
letters in your email.
The bit after the "@" sign is called the domain. Your domain has to be
unique across the world. There are various rules about domains.
Firstly, issues around copyright and legal ownership must be avoided and
don't even try to grab someone else's trademark or a close-spelling of any
existing recognised names. Don't have anything which might be
construed as obscene. As per Company names, you should not have
"royalty" or "Limited" or whatever, unless you have genuine reason so to
do.
Don't use symbols and other characters other than letters and numbers.
You may use a full-stop (point) or an underline or a hyphen but that's
about it. If you need additional clarity, the full-stop is a good
way of doing it. There is no capitalisation issue - capital letters
can be used in correspondence to make things clearer but any
capitalisation is ignored.
There are other (and changing) rules about domain names and we cannot give
advice, legal or otherwise, on the viability or legality of any proposed
domain - it is best for you to play safe.
The extension of the domain name, sometimes referred to as the TLD (Top
Level Domain) is whether your domain ends in .co.uk, .com, .eu, or
whatever. We have several of the most popular TLDs in UK, Ireland
and the US, but we cannot provide .ie addresses at the moment. You
will see that prices vary for the domain name, dependent on the TLD.
You must officially register your domain and you keep it for a fixed term
before it needs renewed (2 full years in our case for all domains).
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