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In <89s5m0$met$1@samba.rahul.net> Pierre Uszynski <pierre@rahul.net> writes:

>>Having your own domain also allows many other interesting things, so you
>>and others might seriously want to consider this.  This would result in
>>a change in your email address, but after that, you would never have to
>>change it again.

>Unfortunately, this is not true, as we discussed earlier. For a small
>business, getting a domain name does not guarantee *anything*. It's
>very easy to contest the ownership of a domain name and while the
>dispute is being resolved, the domain name is completely disabled and
>so is email....

True, but RAHUL.NET is a domain too.  So long as you use an address in
this domain you are subject to the same risk as for any domain name you
might pick.  Fortunately the newer dispute procedures promulgated by
ICANN (at www.icann.org) and applying to all COM/NET/ORG domains are
slightly more reasonable than the old onews.  But the risk is not zero.

Also, you can get registrations in domains other than COM/NET/ORG, and
you will incur a much smaller risk of your domain being disputed, simply
because people won't see you as being a significant threat to them.
Alternatives to consider:

   www.nic.to
   www.centralnic.net

When you use a username@RAHUL.NET you are in effect agreeing to use a
shared resource (the mail handling system for the RAHUL.NET domain) and
you will get all of the benefits and liabilities of using a shared
resource.  The benefit is lower cost.  The liability is that you are
subject to whatever limitations apply to that shared resource.  To be
free of these limitations you need to separate yourself from the public
resource.  In this specific case the way to do that is to have your own
domain.  This makes it easier for your ISP to give you the service you
need without affecting all the other customers.
-- 
(Rahul Dhesi)
a2i network support account <support@rahul.net>