Can anyone tell me if you can have a e-mail address that doesn't end with your internet provider. ex [e-mail]

Question

If you can how do you do it, under your internet provider.

Answer 1

While your Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides you the ability to send/receive e-mail, you can either: (1) obtain a webmail account (e.g. Google Mail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) or (2) obtain a domain name and attach a webmail service with it (free or paid, depends on the registrar company that's providing you the ability to obtain a domain name).

As a free service (e.g. Google Mail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc), you are stuck with the domain name that's used by those providers. If you purchase/obtain your own domain name, you can purchase/obtain a webmail package that can be bound to your domain name.

For domain names, use your popular search engines and search for 'domain name registrars' for more information about obtaining a domain name. Some are free and some are low costs.

Answer 2

There is also a way that someone else with a domain can automatically forward e-mail to your account. An example: e-mail is sent to [e-mail] It then is forwarded automatically to your account at [e-mail] No one knows the difference. But, you have to be able to trust the other person with the domain. They will have access to everything that is forwarded. If you own the domain, can you trust yourself? Silly question, but you get the idea.

Answer 3

Get a domain name like .net. Build your own domain. Then you can have something like [e-mail]

Answer 4

Yes, you definitely can. For a trivial example, you can get an email account at one of the many free email sites (e.g., gmail.com, yahoo.com).