As a gift I'd like to get a Chilean domain (.CL) for someone whose initials are C.L. and I'm sure she'd just want to use it for a permanent email affress.

So, I'm looking for a host who will handle a .cl domain for bare-bones popmail (or mail redirection), really nothing more than that.

Any recommendations?

Also, the only registrar I found (in english, at least) for .cl domains is alldomains.com, but they charge $58/year for registration. are there any other good registrars for .cl that don't charge so much?

Originally posted by melloyello
As a gift I'd like to get a Chilean domain (.CL) for someone whose initials are C.L. and I'm sure she'd just want to use it for a permanent email affress.

So, I'm looking for a host who will handle a .cl domain for bare-bones popmail (or mail redirection), really nothing more than that.

Any recommendations?

Also, the only registrar I found (in english, at least) for .cl domains is alldomains.com, but they charge $58/year for registration. are there any other good registrars for .cl that don't charge so much?

From what I know, most hosts should be able to support a .cl domain.. if all you need is mail direction, you can use a service like MyDomain or ZoneEdit and forward the mail and that wouldn't cost anything.

As for the cheap .cl domains, try posting in the domain names forum.

Thank you for the info.

I was not familiar with ZoneEdit or MyDomain. But since the person I'm thinking of buying the gift for currently only has Yahoo mail, if she wants to properly send email using her .CL address, she'd probably need an account that has popmail, right? If there's a free popmail option under this case thoat would be great, but I assume nothing like that exists, so I'm thinking of something like enhanceedhost's basic package which costs $28.

As long as you can set the nameservers I think any host can do it. If you're just looking for a POP email account, around $1/month seems reasonable... is that $28/month, /year, or _?

It really depends. Certain free WebMail providers (such as FastMail (http://fastmail.fm/)) allows you to choose where you want the e-mail coming from (so you could set it to set it to make it show her .CL address). That being said, FastMail only allows you to choose 1 personality on a free account, so you'd be able to make it look as though it was coming from .CL but nothing else (as it is 1 INCLUDING the fastmail.fm domain, so you would be replacing the .fm domain). Also, there are tag lines that go out with the email (seeing that the service is free), but advantage being she could use it through the web like Yahoo. If you wanted, you could upgrade that to a Member account ($14.95 one-time fee) and get rid of the tag. I've used them for a while and I'm quite pleased with their service.

Hope that helps!

Edit: as for MyDomain and ZoneEdit.. you can check them out:

http://www.mydomain.com/
http://www.zoneedit.com/

I'm not sure which one people like more for mail forwarding.. might want to do a search or something for that.

"is that $28/month, /year" -- Yes, $28/year but that also gives you web hosting which I assume she doesn't need for now.

Fastmail sounds interesting. So does a basic popmail or mailforwarding for less than $15/year. Since it looks like I'm springing $58 for the Chilean domain registration (why couldn't she have other initials?!) I'd rather not spend too much more for initiating mail for her. But I want to make sure that the mail is dependable....