Grant Gross
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AOL offers free personalized e-mail domains

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Aug 9, 20062 mins

My eAddress will be open to all Web users starting in September

AOL will offer personalized e-mail domains free to all Web users starting in September, the company announced Wednesday.

AOL is the first company to offer personalized e-mail domains — for example, you@thenameyouwant.com — for free, the company said in a press release. The service will available through AOL.com.

Users will be able to use their personalized domain, called My eAddress, as an e-mail address, as their AIM address to send and receive instant messages, and as the address of their own personal Web page on the free AIM Pages social networking service. The personal Web page feature will be offered soon, AOL said.

AOL debuted a beta version of My eAddress in May, but it was open only to AOL subscribers.

The My eAddress service will include customized .com or .net e-mail addresses, with up to 100 personalized e-mail addresses with each domain. The service will also include spam and antivirus protection, and two G-bytes of e-mail storage, and an address book.

People who want to create an AOL screen name with the AOL.com domain can get one for free at AOL.com. AOL members who canceled within the past two years can reclaim their screen name or reset their password by signing into AOL Mail or AOL’s software. Former members who don’t remember their password but do know their AOL account security question or former payment method will be able to reactivate their screen name.

Grant Gross

Grant Gross, a senior writer at CIO, is a long-time IT journalist who has focused on AI, enterprise technology, and tech policy. He previously served as Washington, D.C., correspondent and later senior editor at IDG News Service. Earlier in his career, he was managing editor at Linux.com and news editor at tech careers site Techies.com. As a tech policy expert, he has appeared on C-SPAN and the giant NTN24 Spanish-language cable news network. In the distant past, he worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Minnesota and the Dakotas. A finalist for Best Range of Work by a Single Author for both the Eddie Awards and the Neal Awards, Grant was recently recognized with an ASBPE Regional Silver award for his article “Agentic AI: Decisive, operational AI arrives in business.”

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