Another fairly common practice is registering a domain name in order to establish a custom email address. If you have a very long domain name, such as: “ThisIsALongDomainName.com”. You may want to register an abbreviated domain name to use specifically for email. Using our example, one could use “tialdn.com”, where the domain name for email is the acronym of the primary domain name. This way “joe@tialdn.com” is much easier to give out and use. Domain names registered for this type of use need to be pointed to a host in order to use their email servers. Some registrars offer this service, but in other instances, this requires a normal hosting account, even if the account isn’t used to house an actual website.