What's In A Name? Your domain name, you thought long and hard to come up with something snappy, memorable, descriptive, but most importantly, simply too cool.  Of course the perfect name wasn't available, so you settled for the second coolest name ever, but that's another story.   Now that you have the perfect domain name you of course want your email to have that extension (you@yourCompany.com).  But did you know your web site host provider doesn't need to be your email provider?  It's true.  If you like your current email provider, but perhaps you were thinking about doing something about your web site (like getting MyOhMy to bring it back to life), we can fix it so you keep your current email provider but still move to a fine MyOhMy web site (that does what needs to be done). Very briefly, the internet works like this (for more on how the internet works, go to How stuff works or get the full Domain Name Server story at Wikipedia): The internet is comprised of millions of numeric addresses (Internet Protocol or IP addresses) each of which is related to a domain name (i.e. The domain name YourCompany.com = IP address 111.222.333.44).  Companies like Network Solutions or GoDaddy keep these names in a registry.  A domain name registration consists of several records, two or which are the Account, or "A" record, and the Mail Exchanger Record, or "MX" record.  The A record points to your web site, the MX record to your mail server.  These records do not need to match; they can, but it's not mandatory.  If you currently have an email provider with whom you are happy, you can point your MX record to their servers AND point your A record to your web site host (MyOhMy for instance).  We have a number of clients who retained their email provider when they moved to MyOhMy.  Drop us and line and lets discuss how we can do the same for you. For a primer on how domain names affect Search Engine ranking results, read this article in the MarketPosition.com blog.