will Google launch "own domain" facility for Gmail?

isn't that what is required?

[Shak]

just a thought.

would it NOT be nice to be able to have "you own domain name" but powered by Gmail technology.

many web based email service in the past have offered this solution, and its also 1 of the points Lycos are pitching at present: [premiummail.lycos.co.uk...]

could be quite a simple automated solution, with very little human interefference.

You go to Gmail, and buy domain name which has all mail settings etc set to Gmail,

I am sure some techy round here can expolain in more detail about DNS and mail servers etc.

sure aint rocket science

Shak

[trillianjedi]

For google (a company who's value pre-IPO is largely based on brand) to go for something like that, it would have to have "Powered by G-Mail" at the foot of every email.

And I don't think any paying customer would go for that.

TJ

[anallawalla]

Yes, the MX record would be pointed to Gmail. There would be a market for it, but it might be easier for Google to acquire a company that does this now and let them run that side of the business. I'd expect them to expand into other Net-related sectors too, e.g. web hosting, payment gateways, escrow, etc. The brand capital is excellent.

[blaze]

Assuming the revenue generated per user for Gmail AdSense is greater than the overhead for the Gmail account, I think it is really a great idea.

I think it's inevitable. Actually, makes me want to buy a few shares of Google, now..

[ThomasB]

I really like GMail but still I want to have an offline copy of my emails somewhere. There are too many cases when you don't have an internet connection but need some infos from a flight. I just remember my flight to PubCon when I realized that I forgot the printout with the name and the address of the hotel. It would have been a nightmare finding a wifi hotspot to have email access after a 12 hours journey.

[blaze]

Everyone is different I guess. I constantly curse the fact that I can't access all of my email from everywhere.

However, I suppose backing up a gigabyte to disk wouldn't be that hard.

Some kind of synchronisation feature would be nice.

[gopi]

I am sure they will have a premium version of gmail with own domain ,pop access , some kinda import/export facility and maybe come with a sophisticated mail client like outlook (apart from web based access) and also increased space.

There is sure a market for this . Think about the size of the email market in the SOHO (small office/home office) segment!

Who knows it may eventually lead them to the enterprise email market , a very very lucurative field! - direct competition to MS Exchange / IBM Lotus

[ThomasB]

If they really go for an email client there will be more desktop applications soon I guess. Client search is just one program that most people would use. Office programs might be hard, but everything web related (music downloading client, p2p network, webhosting, IM, ...) would be quite easy to make it quite popular. I think Orkut was some kind of a test for that.

[mickmel]

Anyone know of other decent services that offer this? I'd love to use gmail's features with it, but I fear it may be a while before they implement that. Any ideas?

Mickey

[blaze]

I'm currently using godaddy. It works. 40-50$ / year.

I certainly wouldn't have a problem looking at adsense ads all day though if I could use gmail for it..

[Teknorat]

Uh how about you just buy the domain and forward all emails to you gmail account? (Godaddy does this for free.)

[ferfer]

I tried to do that, forwareded my domain email to my Gmail account, and configured Gmail the reply-to as my domain email address, but then I realized that Gmail shows the remitent as the Gmail account name and the reply-to as the reply-to (what a coincidence!) property of the mail, so anyone just copying your address instead of pressing Reply, will write directly to you Gmail address name.

Gmail does not allow to change the remitent address as Outlook Express.

[Teknorat]

Yes that is a shame I suppose.

[IanTurner]

I can't see any reason for using GMail if you can't use your own domain name.

Does it provide anything other than anonymity?