I've had a .co.uk domain with 123-reg for the last 10 years or so and it has always allowed me to forward any email sent to domain@domain.co.uk to personal email address included in the £12 a year fee. This is all I use the domain for , no website or anything else.
They now want £2.99 a month to forward my emails along with the £12 a year fee. Although its not a massive amount of money I'd rather not have to pay it.
Does anyone use a domain host that still has free email forwarding that I can transfer my domain to?
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You can still do that with Gandi.net. Think they charge about £16 + vat for a .co.uk domain per annum, but free to transfer in.
I use Easily for domain registration - costs about £10/year + VAT which includes email forwarding.
I use easyspace, have up to 10 email forwards included, 2 years was just under £15
I use GetDotted for my .co.uk - it's about £6 + VAT a year to keep the domain and I don't have to pay for forwarding and can create as many aliases as I want.
Easyspace here too, though I just forward *@ to my main email address.
Thanks for the replies. GetDotted looks like the simplest and cheapest to transfer to
I use clodflare probably not the cheapest. I've got about 20 domains registered with them and never had any issues, easy to use dns and email forwarding.
Have a look at mythicbeast uk company one of the owners lurks on here.
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^ I completely miss-read that lol! I use Ionos for email forwarding from domains.
I use 1and1 (no issues for years)
no issues for years
Except that 1and1 have been called Ionos for a fairly long time now. I've also used them for many years, although my email is via a Google Apps for Domains account - or Gsuite Legacy Free as Google now refer to it.
I use GetDotted for my .co.uk – it’s about £6 + VAT a year to keep the domain and I don’t have to pay for forwarding and can create as many aliases as I want.
I've just moved one of my .co.uk domains to GetDotted / Freeola but can't see any settings for creating email forwards without paying for email accounts. You can create one free POP3 email account and set up forwarding on it, but's that's all.
@windysurfer - I think that's what you were hoping to do - have you had any success with that yet?
Not transferred yet , ended up paying 123teg for a months email until I worked out what to do.I did chat to them via online chat just to confirm I could do email forwarding so it should be possible
Thanks to Benmc for the recommendation for GetDotted / Freeola.
To set up free email forwarding without paying for mailboxes, from myfreeola & getdotted settings, go to Email Settings > Create New Email Addresses > add email address(es) > Continue > select I want to set up email forwarding for one or more of these addresses > Continue > enter the forward mail to email address(es) > Continue
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We do email forwarding, but charge for it (£12/year for as many domains and addresses as you want).
Worth noting that email forwarding doesn't work very reliably these days, particularly if you're forwarding to one of the big free mail providers (e.g. Gmail). We wrote a blog post on this last week.
We wrote a blog post on this last week
That was an interesting read, thanks. But (maybe it's because i am crap at mornings) I'm a little unclear on the upshot for the average customer? Does it basically mean that some emails just won't get through?
Presumably most personal emails are sent via Gmail or Apple or whatever, so they'd probably be fine? So is the risk more for companies that manage their own servers, affecting things like transactional emails?
Yes, if you forward mail from one email address to an account at Gmail or Yahoo or similar, you can expect to not receive a reasonable proportion of it. You're right that mail originating from large free-mail addresses will not be affected, but there are plenty of individuals and organisations who don't use them.
In order for forwarding to work reliably, mail needs to be DKIM-signed, and although this is increasingly common, it's far from universal. For example, people who forward mail from a personal domain to Gmail need to make sure that outbound mail from their domain is DKIM-signed – Google won't do this for you (unless you're on their paid service and actually host the domain with them).
Recipients won't generally be aware that they're missing mail, and senders may not realise that there's a problem because it only affects the small proportion of their recipients that are forwarding mail.