I live in Maine and it was just announced that if the FCC approves it Verizon will be selling off all it's lines to Fairpoint Communications. I was reading a little about them and their services are expensive and limited.
I am thinking of setting up a domain for e-mail before all this change takes place so that the move will hopefully be smoother for us. The things I want to be able to do are:
1. e-mail accounts for 4 people plus a handful of throw aways for spam and be able to forward seamlessly to my new ISP so I can use either Eudora (our current e-mail program) or Thunderbird. IMAP would be great if available since we have multiple computers.
2. Do you allow + addressing like name+something
mydomain.com
3. Move a blog from wordpress.com to my own domain, hopefully without loosing or having to rebuild it all.
4. As the kids get older let them play and build web sites
Is there other things that I should ask about? Been online since 1993 and Prodigy service but never looked at setting up a domain before.
thanks,
matt