Domain & email
Your name online – and your post with it.
I register the domain in your name, set up your mailboxes and make sure everything runs. You have to neither click through a provider portal nor understand what a DNS record is. You get the access details for your mail program from me – entering them is up to you.
- The domain is in your name – you are the owner, not me
- Mailboxes, forwarding and spam filter included
- Access details for POP3 and IMAP, plus webmail with no setup
- One person to talk to instead of a customer account at a provider
Briefly explained
What a domain actually is
This can be said in one picture. Look at the two addresses below – and then at the highlighted part in the middle.
https://www.your-business.at
office@your-business.at
Das hervorgehobene Stück ist die Domain. Sie ist dein Name im Netz – und sie trägt beides: die Website und deine E-Mail-Adressen.
- office@your-business.at
- boss@your-business.at
- accounts@your-business.at
- workshop@your-business.at
Alle auf deinem Rechner und auf deinem Handy – in dem Mailprogramm, das du ohnehin schon benutzt.
A name that exists only once
A domain is your address online, like your business address in town. You rent it – usually for a year – and as long as you pay, it is yours alone. Worldwide. Nobody else can have it.
Email always belongs to it
Hardly anyone knows this, and it is the most expensive misconception in this area. As soon as you have a domain, you can set up mailboxes on it – usually as many as you like. You no longer need a free webmail account.
Where the post lands is your decision
You collect your mail where you are used to: in Outlook, in Thunderbird, in the mail app on an iPhone or Android. Only the address in front changes – not the way you work.
And the website hangs on the same name
Which is why I set up both together. Where your website sits – with a web host, in a shop or in a builder like Wix – makes no difference. The domain points where it should point.
Why this is not just prettier
The same quote, two different senders
Two businesses, equally good at their trade, the same quote attached. Only the sender is a free webmail account in one case and their own company name in the other.
With a free webmail address
- Your quote lands in the spam folder. You never find out that it never arrived – you think the customer simply did not get back to you.
- The recipient sees a name anyone could have, and has to decide for themselves whether it is genuine.
- Your employee writes from her private address. If she leaves, the correspondence leaves with her.
- If you change provider, you have to tell every customer a new address. Some you never reach again.
- On your company van there is an address that does not belong to you – and that can be blocked at any time.
With your own domain
- Your mail is technically marked as genuine and arrives. That is not a feeling, that is configured.
- The sender shows your company name. The recipient knows in half a second who is writing.
- Every role has its mailbox: office, accounts, workshop. People change, addresses stay.
- Change provider and you take your addresses with you. Your customers notice nothing.
- And when something does not arrive, you call me – instead of filling in a help form and hoping.
What I set up
Everything an address needs – and everything you never have to see
What you end up with is a domain, ready mailboxes and a website that is reachable. The rest is settings that have to sit right once.
The domain
Registered to you as the owner. Almost every ending is possible – .at, .de, .com, .eu and most of the rest. Which one suits you we settle beforehand.
Mailboxes
Up to five, created and ready to use. You get the access details for POP3 or IMAP and enter them in your program – or read your post through webmail, in which case there is nothing to set up at all.
Forwarding
Catch-all addresses like office@ or info@ that reach several people. And addresses that quietly run somewhere else without anyone noticing.
Spam filter, SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Three invisible records proving that a message really comes from you. Without them, Gmail and Outlook sort your post out – without a word.
Subdomains
Addresses like shop.your-business.at or booking.your-business.at, usually as many as you like. Useful as soon as more than one thing is online.
SSL certificate and the destination
The padlock in the browser, without which visitors get warned. Plus the connection to wherever your site sits: web hosting, shop, or a builder like Wix.
You already have a domain
Then it does not have to go – it just needs somebody.
A large part of my work is domains that have existed for years: at a provider whose portal nobody understands, or at an agency that no longer answers.
- Contracts at other providers. I take on the management where your domain sits – you do not have to move for me to look after it.
- Domain transfer. To another provider, without the website or mailboxes going down. The switch happens outside your business hours.
- Advice before buying. Which ending, which name, how many – and whether the domain you want can still be had at all.
Why there is no fixed price here
Because the effort does not sit with me but with the previous provider. Some release a domain in ten minutes, others demand forms by post and take three weeks over it.
So I bill this by the hour – the first hour in full, then in quarter-hour steps – and tell you beforehand what to expect. A flat price here would be too expensive either for you or for me – and both would be dishonest.
How it runs
From the name to the first email
You have roughly two points of contact with it: deciding once, and typing in your password once.
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We look for the name
I check what is still free and tell you what I think of it. Short beats complete, and an ending that fits your area is worth more than one that sounds modern.
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You get the price
The setup is fixed. The domain itself depends on the ending – from about 15 euros a year, considerably more for some. You are told both before anything is ordered.
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I register it to you
You are the owner on the register. The confirmation goes to your address, not mine – you only have to click it once.
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Mailboxes and technology get set up
Creating addresses, setting forwarding, entering the spam filter, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, issuing the certificate, connecting the destination. That is the part you will never see.
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You get the access details
Server address, user name, password and the choice between POP3 and IMAP – everything your mail program wants to know, in one message. Entering them and backing up your old post you do yourself. If you want somebody beside you for that, there is a training appointment for it.
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And afterwards I keep watch
Terms, certificates and reachability I keep an eye on. An expired domain is otherwise only noticed when a customer calls and asks why the website is gone.
What it costs
One part is fixed, the other depends on the ending
Which is why there is no table here pretending to know already. Write me the domain you want, and you usually have the price the same day.
Fixed
from € 190
One-off setup: the domain in your name, mailboxes, forwarding, spam filter, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, subdomains, certificate and the connection to your website.
Depends on the ending
from approx. € 15 / year
The fee for the domain itself. The current prices of Hetzner
Online GmbH apply for the chosen ending – an .at is
cheap, some endings cost several times as much. On top of that
come € 10 to € 25 administration fee a year. I
name the exact amount before you commit.
Frequent questions
What I get asked most often about this
Your name online. Like your business address in town: it exists only once worldwide, and as long as you pay the yearly fee, it is yours alone.
And it carries two things at once: your website (www.your-business.at) and your email addresses (office@your-business.at). That is the same name, just written differently in front.
It works, yes. It probably just costs you jobs without you noticing.
Quotes from free webmail addresses land in the spam folder considerably more often, because there is no way to prove they really come from your business. You never find out that a message did not arrive – you think the customer simply did not get back to you. On top of that comes the first impression: the sender shows either your company name or that of an American corporation.
No. You read it exactly where you read it today: in Outlook, in Thunderbird, in the mail app on an iPhone or Android.
You get the access details for POP3 or IMAP from me, entering them is up to you – in most programs that is four fields. Backing up and transferring your old mail is also yours to do: I do not touch existing mailboxes, because a failed mail migration costs years of correspondence and nobody can get it back. What changes is the address, not the way you work.
You do. I register every domain in your name – you are the owner on the register, not me and not my company.
I still manage it, so that you do not have to click through a provider portal. But if we part ways one day, you take your name with you and have to ask me for nothing. That matters to me enough that it is set out at length further up this page.
The setup costs from € 190 as a one-off. The domain itself starts at around 15 euros a year, and there it varies widely: an .at is cheap, some endings cost several times as much.
Which is why there is no table on this page. Write me the domain you want by email, and you usually have the price the same day.
What certainly comes on top: the current prices of Hetzner Online GmbH apply for the chosen ending, plus € 10 to € 25 administration fee a year. In return you have a person to talk to instead of a customer account at a provider.
Yes, and in most cases that is the right route too. Giving up an established address costs visibility you have built up over years.
I can look after it where it sits, or move it to another provider – without the website or mailboxes going down. I bill both by the hour, because the duration depends on the previous provider and not on me.
No, you do not. In short: DKIM is an invisible signature on every message you send. The recipient checks it automatically and thereby knows the message really comes from your domain.
Together with SPF and DMARC it is the reason your post arrives instead of landing in spam. Without it, Gmail and Outlook increasingly sort it out – without a word. I set up all three; you never have to deal with it.
Just write me the domain you want.
Two lines are enough: which name you have in mind and roughly how many mailboxes you need. You usually have the price the same day – and if the name is already taken, two or three suggestions along with it.