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Secure your domain and professional email

Register the business domain and get email running on it.

About 60 min · moderate · cost varies

Why this matters

A matching email address is the cheapest credibility a service business can buy.

What we'd use

Working out what fits your situation…

Doing it

Step by step

  1. Register the domain

    Buy the domain and check the renewal price, not just the first-year price.

  2. Create the mailbox

    Set up email on that domain and verify ownership when asked.

  3. Add the DNS records and test

    Add the mail records at the registrar, wait for propagation, then send and reply to a test message.

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Secure domain and professional email

Get the business a domain it owns and working email on that domain.

How should it behave?

It stops and asks you before going further: Stop before purchasing. The owner buys the domain themselves.

Legal, tax and financial rules differ by state and change. This is process guidance, not legal, tax or financial advice - for a binding answer, use the official agency source or a licensed professional in your state. Any tool named is a suggestion to evaluate, not a requirement.

You're done when

You can send and receive mail at an address on your own domain.

  • You own the domain

    Enter the domain you registered.

    Not yet
  • You can send and receive at your own domain

    Send a test message to yourself from the new address.

    Not yet

Check it worked: Send a message from the new address to a personal account and reply to it.

Almost there

Still to confirm: You own the domain, You can send and receive at your own domain.

If it goes wrong

Mail failing? DNS records take time to propagate, and a typo in an MX record is the usual cause.

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