Have you ever wished you had a shorter email address or could get your name or business name on a country domain like us.com or uk.com? Now you can.
Even if you own your own domain and don’t need a premium email address, you probably know many people who are not bloggers and do not have their own domains. They might want a really short email address or to be able to get just their first or last name on a short domain.
If you want to be famous you could claim your firstname.lastname@yourcountry.com or if you think you’re REALLY famous you could be the one-and-only Andrew@uk.com or Kristi@us.com or ivin@za.com.
Murray Newlands Affiliate Heat Affiliate Network just launched the Emailme Affiliate Marketing program that pays a commission of 20% of each purchase for promoting EmailMe premium email addresses. Buyers can get the email addresses they’ve always wanted: their name, business name, nickname or initials – for as little as $19.99 a year to $500.00 for in demand names to $5,000-$15,000 per year for Top Premium Names.
You earn 20% per purchase so if someone registers any names like the examples I mentioned you would earn a commission of $100 to $3000. People buy vanity license plates for their cars so who knows – maybe someone reading our blogs would pay $500 or more for their vanity email address.
DISCLAIMER: I work with Murray Newlands and Affiliate Heat. There are affiliate links in this post for tracking and testing purposes.
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Sounds like quite an interesting affiliate program – especially if you can find clients who are willing to spend up to $15000 for top premium names – but surely, this won’t be easy.
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“DISCLAIMER: I work with Murray Newlands and Affiliate Heat. There are affiliate links in this post for tracking and testing purposes.”
Are you saying that non of the affiliate links are for making money purposes? That would be a shame.
Great idea btw. I wish I thought of it. But then again I wish I thought of lots of stuff.
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Email marketing is interesting but I never tried to do it in a big way. However, such posts can be very motivating for those who’re interested in this trade. By the way it was interesting to read about how the email address works.
I don’t want to be the skeptical one, but I don’t think people are ready to pay that much for a vanity email address especially with the high availability of domain names or even free email addresses.
Hi mulberry,
You’re, right. Paying f0r an email when there are free ones is an option that not everyone needs. There are some business reasons someone might want to use them though, such as the additional storage space and mail management features for those who get a lot of email.
Another reason would be to use different short, easy to remember email addresses when you often tell someone your address over the phone. If you have ever tried to give someone an email address over the phone you know that the shorter and easier to spell the better, right?
Someone in business might buy interior.design@us.com or dallas.construction@us.com or austin.realtor@us.com both because they are short and easy to offer over the phone AND they clearly tell someone what the email is for.
That way if someone writes it down they KNOW why they have it, what you offer and where you are. How many times have we written an email address down and then not remembered whose it is or why we have it?
A business could also use many unique email addresses to track traffic from different sources such as classifieds ads use one address, Twitter use another or offer different addresses on different landing pages used in ads or organic search. That way when someone emails you know where they found you and what they’re interested in before you reply so you can provide highly targeted information.
A business could also have a different email address for each person who answers the phone so you can track who is getting repeat calls (and could mentor others) or who doesn’t get any calls.
Or use a different email address for each product or service someone asks about so when they email you’ll know what they want to know about or what you talked to them about before.
Each of these could make buying a unique, short email address that describes your business, products, services or what you do and allows you to track where email originates a wise business investment.
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Cool stuff here. I like the idea of putting my email address in a short domain. But I think few people would really buy something like this. They would probably invest their money in other stuff. Having your vanity email address is nice but only if it is free. Yes, for business owner, this is helpful but unless it is proven to be a good marketing strategy for the business, they will hesitate to invest on it. I hope someday Yahoo or Google consider this wanting/need of the people to have their own vanity email. Email recalling would be easier if they do. 🙂
Hi Charlene,
If you only need one email address it is faster and easier and possibly less expensive to just buy one from email me. If you have a Web site you could set one up on your own domain; however, that requires knowing how and has the drawback of filling your server space up.
Even though I have configured both my email program and hosting account to delete mail after I pull it that is not happening and that is a problem because I do not want my Web site server to use space for email intended for my blog.
I have to make time to diagnose why that is happening and fix it so if I just wanted one short, descriptive email address I would just get one from email me instead.
These email addresses use the corporate g-mail version that has additional features you have to pay for so if someone is going to buy that anyway they can get their short, descriptive email address too.
Business owners must realize that you DO have to invest in your business and that means sometimes you spend money on what will improve what you do.
As you mention, being able to easily remember an email is valuable – especially if it means the difference between making or losing a sale.
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Hi Bilal,
While I definitely recommend businesses own their own domains, it can be challenging to find a short, easy to remember and spell .com domain and many people automatically put .com on everything. Having a short country code .com name could be beneficial even to those who have their own domain names.
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Hi Ivin,
That is true for us because we’re bloggers who own domains, but the vast majority of people do not own a domain. Many of our readers will not have that as an option and could be interested.
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Well hello, nice read, I would really love to have an e-mail for really “famous” people. I seriously din’t know about this kind of service so thanks for filling me up on this.
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Hi Ali,
Your comment has given me another idea for using these short email addresses. What if you had a domain name like Tinnitus.net and found that many people could not spell tinnitus. That would make telling them the email address over the phone more difficult.
You could register hearing.help@us.com or hearing.cure@us.com or hear.better@us.com and use that as the email address you use for phone calls or print media.
A company could even track leads driven by specific individuals by obtaining a unique email address for each person. Since most of the short .com domain names are already taken, being able to register many short email addresses on a country .com domains provides another alternative for businesses to use for tracking which of their marketing methods is working.
You could use one address for business cards, another for fliers distributed to local businesses and a third for ads in your local paper. This would only work well if you either used a landing page associated with each email address or better yet only used the email tracking idea with no Web page.
This would be a way for local businesses to determine whether their offline methods are working.
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Ok, this service looks cool and I am really interested to see how it works and how can they get an exclusive email adress (I mean, I think I could pay 500$ one time fee to a domain owner just to give me an email).
I don’t want to be the skeptical one, but I don’t think people are ready to pay that much for a vanity email address especially with the high availability of domain names or even free email addresses.
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Hi Alex,
Only the one short name addresses are that expensive. Most of them are $19.99 a year. Try some test searches to see what you can get for less.
We are thinking everyone knows how to buy a domain like we do and that is not true for the majority of the public and most likely the majority of the readers of most blogs.
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Cool stuff here. I like the idea of putting my email address in a short domain. But I think few people would really buy something like this. They would probably invest their money in other stuff. Having your vanity email address is nice but only if it is free. Yes, for business owner, this is helpful but until it is proven to be a good marketing strategy for the business, they will hesitate to invest in it. I hope someday Yahoo or Google consider this wanting/need of the people to have their own vanity email. Email recalling would be easier if they do.
Hi Mark,
That is probably true if you own your own domain already; however, what if you didn’t have a domain and aren’t ready to have your own Web site yet? Then you might want a premium email address.
You could register a short email address on Yahoo or Google but many of them are no longer available and they are generic. They don’t reveal what country you are in – which could be important to some who are very focused on their country and want to connect with others where the live or run their business.
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Really very interesting thing to do with our email by having only our name or our business name and country domain. But it is too much costly for only one year of use.
Hi Semi,
Do you think $19.99 is too expensive or did you think there are only the higher ultra-premium names? Trucks@us.com would be $500 a year but semi.trucks@us.com would be better for your business and that is only $19.99 per year.
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Quite cool and definitely different, I’m not real clear on what we can gain from it though?
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Hi Dennis,
Like any affiliate program, potential income.
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I was referring to the high-priced email addy’s, not the affiliate program…as we discussed via messenger.
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Hi Dennis,
If a person does not own a domain they could want an email for any of these reasons:
1) They have a business that is based in a specific country and they would like to call attention to that using their business name or top products and the domain for their country.
2) For the same reason someone would pay for a vanity license plate they might want a vanity email account to match or just because they want to be the one-and-only John@us.com or Murray@uk.com
3) They may want the advantages of using gmail without using a gmail address.
4) They might want the premium features Corporate gmail accounts offer over free accounts.
5) There could be additional benefits of having a “advert-free Google Mail™ box” you can get with these accounts over regular free gmail accounts. I will have to check into that.
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FYI: for those that do not know, Godaddy also sells email addresses for those with no domain…much cheaper just another avenue. 🙂
I do not know what features/benefits they hold though.
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I was chatting with Kristi (@Kikolani) and she suggestsed these additional reasons:
1) good if they don’t trust the free servers (hotmail, yahoo, google)
2) getting in early enough, they could get a short email like me@us.com
3) hopefully more support if you’re paying for it (backup, service)
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Does the affiliate program pay recurring commissions on the yearly fees or is it just the one time when they register their name?
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Good question Josh. The payment is one time only; however, since buyers only pay the large amount once and $19.99 a year thereafter the highest potential income comes from the first payment.
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