Is it best to use one domain for all email or create an email domain for
each web site domain?
For instance, lets say my hosting server is domainMaster and there are 10
web sites being hosted on this server.
For simplicity lets say the web sites are company1.com, company2.com, etc.

So is it best (preferred) to create the pop email accounts on mail.domain
domainMaster.com and then alias to each company domain?
Or do you prefer to create an email domain for each company?

I see hosting companies do it both ways and I want to understand the
advantages/disadvantages for each.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Steve

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:51:38 -0800, "SteveT" <dev@seametrix.com>
wrote:

>Is it best to use one domain for all email or create an email domain for
>each web site domain?
>For instance, lets say my hosting server is domainMaster and there are 10
>web sites being hosted on this server.
>For simplicity lets say the web sites are company1.com, company2.com, etc.
>
>So is it best (preferred) to create the pop email accounts on mail.domain
>domainMaster.com and then alias to each company domain?
>Or do you prefer to create an email domain for each company?
>
>I see hosting companies do it both ways and I want to understand the
>advantages/disadvantages for each.
>
>Hope this makes sense.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>

I doubt there is a best practices on this... I prefer to match domains
so that the emails look more professional. Nothing more confusing than
to get an email from Y when you expected it to be from X.

That, and $2 will get you coffee in most coffee shops today.

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> I doubt there is a best practices on this... I prefer to match domains
> so that the emails look more professional. Nothing more confusing than
> to get an email from Y when you expected it to be from X.

That's what my thought was. So I started wondering what could possible be
saved by one domain?
Even the admin would get confused because he won't be able to tell which
user goes with which web site domain.
Are there any advantages to one domain?

Steve

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:49:49 -0800, "SteveT" <dev@seametrix.com>
wrote:
 
>
>That's what my thought was. So I started wondering what could possible be
>saved by one domain?
>Even the admin would get confused because he won't be able to tell which
>user goes with which web site domain.
>Are there any advantages to one domain?
>
>Steve
>

Like a less confused sysadmin? <g>

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This depends on your business needs.  Yeah, that is what you wanted to hear.
  You can have a primary domain and point aliases to the primary one all
day long.  So no matter if someone points to domain1.com, domain2.com etc.,
this all flows into the same inbox.  It helps keep users less confused
instead of having multiple mailbox to check.  Less confused users and admins
is a good thing.   I've seen it done both ways, no way was better than the
other in my experience.

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Steve Schofield
Windows Server MVP - IIS
ASPInsider Member - MCP

http://www.orcsweb.com/
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"SteveT" <dev@seametrix.com> wrote in message
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> Is it best to use one domain for all email or create an email domain for
> each web site domain?
> For instance, lets say my hosting server is domainMaster and there are 10
> web sites being hosted on this server.
> For simplicity lets say the web sites are company1.com, company2.com, etc.
>
> So is it best (preferred) to create the pop email accounts on mail.domain
> domainMaster.com and then alias to each company domain?
> Or do you prefer to create an email domain for each company?
>
> I see hosting companies do it both ways and I want to understand the
> advantages/disadvantages for each.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>
>

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