Choose your own email through AOL
Got an email today from AOL. It told me that if I wanted a custom email address of my choice, they’d provide it for me. So AOL is now giving away emails that don’t end in AOL.com? Interesting!
I decided to give it a try. If you go to domains.aol.com, you can check to see of your desired domain is free. If it is, AOL will kick in the 8 bucks or so to register it for you. Then you can invite up to 100 people to join you on that new domain. So now, thanks to AOL, you can email me at IThink@EducatorsAreCool.com.
Now this may seem pretty cool, but I do wonder whether this is in some sense a scam by AOL to get registered every desirable domain name that hasn’t been registered yet. Let the masses identify the good ones for you, and then AOL owns all the domains. What happens if you decide you want to put up a website at that domain? Doesn’t look like you can. It seems as though EducatorsAreCool.com is going to take you to an AOL profile page for the account. So I guess AOL.com is branching out to a domain near you.
While that feels a little goofy to me, I do dig the fact that they’ll give you a custom domain name for free. Well, I guess there’s still a price, it just isn’t monetary.
Oh yeah, if you want an EducatorsAreCool.com email address, I have 100 invitations left 