A client tweeted us this yesterday….
Any guesses at what small businesses do that drives me crazy?
.@easyDNS .@StuntPope pic.twitter.com/dbBLRG9Fvo
— ae_zero (@ae_zero) June 20, 2019
He’s right. It drives me nuts when I see this as well. @ae_zero’s own words (this post practically writing itself)….
#1: Using a free email address looks tacky, and is risky if that provider ever pulls the rug out from under you. Similarly, using an address from your ISP is also lame and limits your business’s mobility.
#2: Owning a domain but not having an email at it looks inept.
All correct. However in this case, it gets even worse:
As I’m either repeatedly mistyping this domain when I try to do a whois or go there in a browser, or else, they let the domain name expire!
So the takeaways are this:
- If you’re going to have a domain, put your email addresses at that domain, even if you are just forwarding them to your ISP or free email provider
- You shouldn’t be using Gmail anyway, if you value your privacy at all
- If you’re going to emblazon your domain on your vehicle, or take out billboards or have any other form of offline material with the domain, don’t forget to renew it.
They appear to have a given their sole to Facebook as their primary way of being in front of their customers. wondering what fun a competitor could have by grabbing the domain and just forwarding it to something nasty.
Also, the screen shot is broken, we can’t see your evidence of the domain being available, so I wonder how noticeable a spike in look-ups for it will be at easywhois.com
Yeah I was thinking about somebody grabbing the name while I was walking the dog just now, especially since we’re attracting attention to it. I just regged it and will flip that gmail address a note (good for something, I guess).
For now it just redirects to here (which you won’t see for about an hour since .CA doesn’t update in realtime yet).
“New Site Coming Soon! , powered by easyDNS™ Technologies Inc.”
Thumbs up.
Helping small businesses one bit at a time.