Having a free email address hurts sales

[RegFee]

Do you agree or disagree? I've always used my yahoo address for everything I do. I never gave this any thought, until I got denied membership to another forum the other day because I had a "free email address". So I got to thinking...if I'm trying to sell a domain name outside of a forum, would having a free email address look unprofessional enough to hurt my sales?

So...who better to ask than the pros at, um, namepros!

 

[user-7256]

I know that on my new website, Flonds.com, I do not allow email addresses from:
hotmail.com
yahoo.com
mail.com
email.com
math.com
juno.com
dodgeit.com
softhome.net
spamgourmet.com
mytrashmail.com
mailexpire.com
hush(mail).com
fakemailz.com

Simply because these are free, unreliable, and most of them are spam-avoidance services.

If people see that you run a "professional" website, but notice a free email address (even Gmail) they may not trust you as much simply because this is common practice for scam websites.

As for domain sales, I know GoDaddy does not allow some free email accounts. I would recommend getting a good Gmail account or using your ISP (or even a permanent domain you may have bought).

 

[True_Snake]

I agree 100%. Free email addresses are not at all professional.

I've noticed graphic designers say "I can do the job. Email me at [email protected]"

If that doesn't make you sound like a scammer, what will? The sad thing is that most people have a domain name, and it's quite easy to make an email account or forwarder with the domain.


True_Snake

 

[RegFee]

I agree 100%. Free email addresses are not at all professional.

I've noticed graphic designers say "I can do the job. Email me at [email protected]"

If that doesn't make you sound like a scammer, what will? The sad thing is that most people have a domain name, and it's quite easy to make an email account or forwarder with the domain.


True_Snake

Ok, let's say I use my domain name.... upstateNY.us, and make my email address jorge ~at~ upstateNY dot us. So all email going to that address will be forwarded to my yahoo account. Well, what if I need to reply to that person? Is there a way to mask what your real email address is? I remember there being an option like this.

 

[user-7256]

Yahoo mail... um, I don't know of any feature at Yahoo that does that.

 

[RegFee]

As for domain sales, I know GoDaddy does not allow some free email accounts. I would recommend getting a good Gmail account or using your ISP (or even a permanent domain you may have bought).

I know SEDO doesn't let you have a free email address when you register. I think you can change the address after you've signed up though.

EDIT: I thought this would get auto-merged with my last post... promise, not trying to spam

 

[.Matt]

I also agree that free email addresses look extremely unprofessional.

I wouldnt ask someone to do me a job with "[email protected]" as their contact email..

 

[Jim_Westergren]

I also agree on that it is unprofessional.

I have e-mail forwarders set up on different domain names I own and I give the e-mail adress that fits for that person/circumstances. All the e-mails are then forwarded to my hotmail so I get alerted as soon I get a mail. Works very well except that I cannot mask which I would like to do.

 

[CrazyTech]

It's unprofessional IMHO. If you're going to conduct business you need to appear serious and signing up for a free email account from Yahoo or Hotmail doesn't cost you a thing. It can easily be a faked email that one abandons soon as they are done scamming you. Your own email at a domain you own comes off much more professional because you're actually putting money into something.

 

[rcep]

no way any one could stop people from using free mails
cuz they could register free like on gmail is not on ur block list
anyways
its up to u i use my tk email for 5 years and i never faced any problem

 

[user-7256]

no way any one could stop people from using free mails
cuz they could register free like on gmail is not on ur block list
anyways
its up to u i use my tk email for 5 years and i never faced any problem

rcep, it's really just a matter of finding the least reliable and cheatable, so to speak, email addresses. For example, with Dodgeit, ANYBODY can read your mail! The idea with my restriction feature is not to stop people from using free email. They can use free email ALL THEY WANT! But when it comes to signing up at Flonds, only reliable email providers are allowed and those on the lists are some of the worst. Gmail is highly reliable, considering it's a Google product, has continually increasing space and nothing ever has to be deleted. See what I mean?

 

[rcep]

compuXP i agree with on my boards i do get spam posts from made domain names
basicly i rarly see spammers from the names u did list

in my situation iwhen i notice someone tring to spam just i suspend when so they can register anymore in other emails
the list up i never get from it spamemr i get from emails such us mystupidschoo.co and from myowndoamin.com
that is what i get

basicly now i am using the suspention method its the simplests and fastests and i am not loosing any more users

 

[barefoottech]

When I want to display an email address it is always a gmail address
any that is not spam is forwarded to my Mailbox at my business email address
which is [email protected] where there the domain name is one of several business domains
anything received there is sorted by category and stored in various mailboxes
For personal use ,I use my isp issued address
For Return Email I use a email address which is dfiferent again ,but is one-way ,so no auto return
WHy so many . Average spam on an average day is 1000+
Yet my real addresses I only get maybe 3 or 4
Hotmail,GMail & Yahoo addresses are the worse
I never send using them at all ,because a lot of business like mine
Auto tag them in Spamassassin as SPAM

Get yourself a Good Business Like Email address
It looks better any way
[email protected] Looks Crap
][email protected] Looks Professional

 

[Fkrule]

i faced my first problem as a matter of fact with my yahoo e-mail address today when i was trying to get a chat room installed today to my site. but luckily on with my site i get a free e-mail address i used that and they did not mind.

 

[hape]

Get about 300+ emails per day ( the ones that pass the spam filtering )
Emails sent from free mail services and a weak subject are always on the verge of being dumped without glancing at content.
After being online since 1996 these addresses are automatically rated 'low end importance'

 

[Fkrule]

my site e-mail address is the low key one which i do not use that often usually around 5 to 10 e-mails per weak the yahoo one gets around that in a day but a couple of months i was subscribed to a bbc breaking news alert which usually snt me around 10 e-mails per day then i had extra for forums updates and my family and friend now i have signed of that not many e-mails so far keeping awya from spam.

 

[1rrr1]

i think that hotmail and yahoo addresses are lame, but gmail and some others are ok.

 

[RegFee]

i think that hotmail and yahoo addresses are lame, but gmail and some others are ok.

Do you think the services themselves are lame or just the addresses?

If it's the addresses you are criticizing, how does gmail sound any better? I've always thought gmail sounded like a gangsta email service.

 

[barefoottech]

gmail are useless ,i have hundreds i can't give away
I actually pay to keep an email address from old isp internet account

 

[JoshHendo]

I bought joshhendo.com simply to use for e-mail. I have different e-mails for different things, though they all forward to gmail :D