Domain Name Registration

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Domain Name Registration

For that extra, professional touch, you can register your own domain. Instead of receiving mail as name@westnet.com, mail will come to name@yourcompany.com . In order to set up a domain the name must first be registered with the InterNIC, the governing body of the Internet. Domain names are given on a first come, first served basis. The fee for WestNet to host your domain is $50 per year with a $25 one-time setup. Additionally, the InterNIC will charge you $70 for the first two years and $35 per year thereafter.

Mail Forwarding

As part of our basic domain package, WestNet will provide E-Mail Forwarding for your domain. This will cause mail sent to an address at your domain to be forwarded on to a real e-mail address, either here at WestNet, or anywhere else on the Internet. Forwarding for six individual addresses and a default are included in the base package. Additional forwarded names are $10/year.

As an example, here is a typical forwarding set-up:

Mail Sent To:	Will Be Received At:
robert@yourcompany.com	bob@westnet.com
ssmith@yourcompany.com	samuel@westnet.com
rjones@yourcompany.com	richard@CAprovider.com
staff@yourcompany.com	bob@westnet.com samuel@westnet.com richard@CAprovider.com kathy@westnet.com
@yourcompany.com (Default)	kathy@westnet.com

Bob, Sam, and Richard each have their own address at their company's virtual domain. All four staff members will get mail addressed to "staff". Kathy, the company president, acts as the default. She gets mail sent to any other address, such as kathy@yourcompany.com, sales@yourcompany, or even SantaClaus@yourcompany.com. In this way, no message is ever lost because of a typing mistake.

This example would cost $60 per year. Bob, Sam, and Richard's aliases each count as one. The "staff" address counts as four, one for each person it forwards to, for a total of seven addresses. The default is always included.