Business these days works purely on mails. Except for the so called conventional businesses such as trading cement and pipes for construction at very low levels, emails may not be used, but anyone and everyone has got an email id, and a computer with an internet connection. The internet has become a place that has a highly growing demand for bandwidth, with the growing number of computers attached to it.

Free emaiils are suitable for induviduals. Everyone provides you with a free mail box and monetizes yoru mails with their advertisments in the footer. Gmail is a bit decent, hey dont attach any ads in the mail, but you could see ads in the inbox, ads from adsense, once that are relevent to the contents of the mail. Its not just once or twice that I have clicked on the ads displayed on google, and I have returned a considerable amount of money to google for their providing me with a free mail box.

Corporates dont like ads on their mails. And they cant send out mails from free mail boxes. So even if they dont have a website, they spend $10 a year to get a domain name and park it in some hosting. The best that a linux hosting can offer for free is smart mail or horde. And if you wish to switch isps, switching mailboxes would be a problem. Whats the best way to keep your mails safe and permanant?

Go for Google Apps. At google.com/a, you can get an unlimited number of free mail boxes to your domain name, and all you need to do is to change your MX entries as required on the hosting side, and no matter how many times your HSP’s server goes down for any reason, your mails are safe, and not a single mail would be bounced. Also, google offers an ever growing mail box, so you do not have to delete another mail. And, above all, to the best of most people’s knowledge, true spam blocking is offered only by google. Not a single message that you wish to be on the inbox gets into spam. And if you try to send spam, with 500 ids in the BCC field, they will block all your mails, and it will not go out, and you will not get a bounced report. So no one gets affected. If you over do that ofcourse you will be blocked.

When you change ISPs, you just need to add the MX records for google, and its very easy to do in a cpanel hosting, just follow the instructions there, and your mails will not be damaged in any ways. There will be ads in the free edition, as no one can give you anything for free. Even if you dont click on it, they will manage with the money that you get them for the impressions, and there is another package where they offer you a fully loaded account that will cost you $50 a year per user id, which includes phone support as well apart from several other things. And it gives you a lot more space as well. If you think you cannot tolerate ads, just pay them $50, why why pay, when you can get it all for free? A few ads running on the right side should not distract you much right?

And even if you pay this $50, you will find that its a lot cheaper from any mail server thats available outside. And google is always reliable, and there is not a single downtime that I have seen in their mail servers, and u ca use this account for ages and ages to come without any fear of loss of data or anything at ll. And the best of all is that your mail box size would be ever growing

I signed up for a Payoneer debit card, a company that offers prepaid mastercard debit card. No, I have not got it from getafreelancer.com or utest.com. The site that Im working with is a different company.

Let me tell you about the card. It is an online debit card, and has got embossed numbers. Everytime money is loaded into it by you or the company that is paying you, there will be a 2% service charge. And, when you are in India, and you make payments in INR, another charge of 3% applies towards currency conversion service charges.

And, if you are withdrawing cash from ATMs, there will be another static charge of $2 per transaction. So, for every $100 that you withdraw, there is a fee of $7 that you pay them, and you get to keep $93. If you are just making purchases in India, You get to spend $95 for every $100 that you load in it. And if you are making any online purchases in USD, like buying a domain name or a hosting, your cost per $100 is only $2.

But still, loading money getting charged is a bad thing. You should have that atleast for free.

The best way to bring in money to India is still Paypal, and now that they have launched the NEFT feature with which money can be transfered to your bank account, and you dont have to request cheques or anything makes it even better. In just about 48 hours time, any money that you withdraw hits your account, though they say that it might take 5 to 7 days to be on the safer side.

A domain name is the most important thing for your business. If you are making money from the internet, if you do anything at all on the internet, you do it with a domain name, and a loss of a domain name can cost a lot.

Enom has allegations that it suspends domains if a domain gets listed blacklisted for any reason at all. Godaddy literally owns the domains that you register, and they are free to suspend it and run their ads in it any time they like. Their contract is like that.  I dont wish to talk about the other registrars. They all have ways to manipulate the rules laid down by ICANN.

One extremely decent domain registrar that I know of is the directi group. They own a number of businesses including reseller club, answerable, transecute, orderbox, logicboxes etc. They too have registered about a million domains, but they are unfortunately very less talked about. They have their base in India, and they use a JP Morgan Chase bank account to receive funds from other countries.

It is the most legitimate domain company that is there in the world. If you register a domain name, it belongs to you. If it expires, they will put their ads on it, but you can always claim it back in about 45 days time, and they do give it back to you for the same old price that they have promised.

Reseller club is a registrar with the name of public domain registry, that targets reseller business. It primarily concentrates on domain registrations, and also provides services that are closely associated with domain names such as web hosting, ssl certificates, managed dns etc. Unlike the other registrars, they give complete branding to the resellers, and their own api which is fully customizable. Reseller club remains open only to the resellers, and most of the public can never trace the domain back to the registrar.

It is not writen about in wikipedia, they dont advertise on google, the only place I have ever seen them advertising is on webhosting.info\

Answerable.com is another business owned by directi, and the name of the registrar is Transecute. They charge the lowest prices for domain names in the world. You get a .com for 8.49, and it is very difficult to find another registrar or seller who would be selling the domain for this price with no strings attached.

I trust answerable.com, and I have al my personal domains there, though I have a reseller account at resellerclub and enom for indyahozting.com