{"id":13729,"date":"2018-11-20T10:54:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/names.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13729"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T09:29:10","slug":"setting-up-your-business-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.names.co.uk\/blog\/setting-up-your-business-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting up your business email address: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Securing your professional email address, and domain name, should be top of your to-do list once you\u2019ve established your business idea. Having a custom email address shows you\u2019ve created a real business, whereas using a Gmail, Yahoo or some other generic email address screams \u2018weekend hobby\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that it\u2019s easy to set up a professional email address with names.co.uk, and it involves becoming a domain owner, if you aren\u2019t already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picking your email package<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visit our Business Email page<\/a> which sets out all the features of our varying business email packages. You might like to take our recommended package for starter businesses of 3 users, 15GB of storage per person, paid for in one go for a whole year. If that doesn\u2019t sound quite right you can change the number of users, storage amount and payment term until it\u2019s spot on for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find your domain name<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once you\u2019ve got your perfect email package sussed, or taken the easier option and got started with our recommend package, it\u2019s time to find your domain name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A domain is your unique name on the internet, which is made up of a chosen phrase and an extension. For example, our is \u2018names.co.uk\u2019 with \u2018.co.uk\u2019 being the extension. Once you register your domain name, you\u2019re its owner until your contract expires. Your domain name becomes your web address, i.e. www.names.co.uk<\/a> and it also forms your email address, i.e. laura@names.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can pretty much register any domain name you like, so long as no one else has snapped it up. Our search tool makes it really easy to check whether the domain name you want is available. It\u2019ll even recommend some similar domain names that are available if your preferred option is taken \u2013 saves you some brain ache!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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