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Forever digging myself into a deeper hole, I was relieved to see this article about allocating various email addresses to certain tasks. Having grown from ‘English teacher’ to ‘English teacher with a business’, with 3 domains and about 10 email addresses, I looked around and was appalled at the mess I had created for myself.

The worst problem is inefficiency, with no structure to my system -if I have the audacity to call it that- I was checking all my mail addresses for all areas of my life. Now, using the above linked article as a guide I have managed the following:

1. Personal email address for close friends, family, etc
2. ‘Premium’ work address for important work related mail, people I deal with regularly
3. General work address for the ‘occasional’ partners
4. Social-networking registration address
5. Web-site registration mail, which I know will end up on mailing lists

Now everything is in it’s place, all that remains to be seen is how strict I will be with those who send mails to the wrong address. What would you do?

by John.Karakatsanis

I guess I must have owned about 10 domains at some stage in my life; .co.nz .net .com all for either business or pleasure. Currently I have two, maybe three -clarification later- domains. This article is about people who buy domains with the sole purpose of profiting from them by selling them to owners of similar domains, or by taking advantage of a technical error to renew someone else’s domain, then sell it back to them. Both of these ‘practises’ have happened to me.

I used to have a lovely domain name, mahita.net, it is based on the Maori word for sage, teacher. While I was running this domain for my teaching business, I moved flats. At the same time, I moved my cable service with me, and here began the problems. For a domain you have to provide an email address which is NOT the same as the domain, and NOT one of the many free services; hotmail, yahoo, etc. (more…)