I’m a big fan of netfirms.com for registering and managing domains. Right now I have approximately 20 domains registered with them. At $5 to $9 each, that isn’t too bad. One problem I’ve ran into is using those domains to park e-mail address for websites that are hosted on other servers. Netfirms wants you to use webmail.netfirms.com to access your domain only emails and pop3 access has been disabled. To get it enabled you have to pay $59.95 for a Hosting PLUS account.

Well, I didn’t want to do that because I’ve tried it in the past, and I’m not a fan of Netfirms’ hosting program. For hosting I prefer Siteground or 1and1 but I also don’t want to move my Netfirms domains because they make it so much easier to modify non-hosted domains quickly. So as a work around I decided to use Google Apps which offers several solutions for domains by modifying your DNS and CNAME settings.

Currently the domain ownership verification process is still pending but it should work, if not I’ll update this post with any new information.

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