Farewell Co.CC?

Update 5/03/2013 ~ I am noticing a lot of people are finding this website via Googling if Co.CC is going to return. Sadly I doubt it is going to come back at all.

For those with a better memory than a goldfish on crack, a year or so back I wrote an article about Co.cc and how you can use them with email and I also did a Co.cc referral review but it seems as of today they might have pulled the plug.

For those that may not know, Co.CC was a free subdomain service that gave you a subdomain (like snat.co.cc) and then gave you full DNS access so you could use it as you would a normal domain and the service worked great – even I used them for a few throwaway domains but that is where the problem came in.

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Making the perfect e-mail address

Would advise Dot.TK nowadays.
Would advise Dot.TK nowadays.

Images are long gone and so are the providers included below. I would advise Zoho.com for free email and to get a Dot.TK which is still around and likely to be for the long term.

Today I bring to you an article of advice rather than one in which I just rant about something. Today I am going to tell you how you can get that perfect e-mail address.

An e-mail address is very important in today’s times as it not only allows us to contact people but it gives the person you are sending an e-mail to that first look which for some things like a job application can be everything and better yet, you can get all this for free.

First, we must think about where we are going to get this e-mail address from. I am betting that you just thought of somewhere like Gmail or Hotmail but as you may know most of the actual good names have been taken and what is left is something like [email protected] – which does not look so good. But fear not, there is another solution.

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