Choose second or third level domain name

Always when possible go for a second level domain name as it makes your address shorter and easier to use. Therefore, I would prefer to register cope.name rather than steve.cope.name. In example given cope.name is actually already registered and so I can't use it, but currently steve.cope.name is available. What do I do? Well lets look at what my email addresses would look like in each case.

Email addresses

If I could register second level name of cope.name then I could assign my own email addresses to my family members as follows: mom@cope.name dad@cope.name firstchild@cope.name If I registered third level name of steve.cope.name then I could assign my own email addresses to may family members as follows: mom@steve.cope.name dad@steve.cope.name firstchild@steve.cope.name I think above example makes it easy to see why cope.name is best choice.

Which one?

In my case I don't like to use third level of steve.cope.name and so I would look for an alternate second level variation of cope that was available like Scope,cope-uk, Tipton-Cope, Cope-kavas or Cope-family etc.

Part 3 will look at how to find a registrar and registering a domain name.

• Part 3 of Lifetime email addreses
• Part 1 of Lifetime email addreses

A real world example of a whitelist would be if two companies wanted to exchange email only with each other. These companies could implement a whitelist that contained IP address for just two email servers that want to send email to each other. That would mean that any email coming from an IP address not on whitelist would be returned to sender. For companies they can ensure that employees are only dealing with work related email and not chatting with their friends.

The benefits of whitelists are many but proper management of whitelists is equally important. Misuse of whitelists will only lead to more headaches for everyone involved with missing email, irate customers and IT departments doing overtime just being tip of iceberg.