Google Apps for Your Domain
Posted by Chris @ 9:27 pm
It has been a while coming, but last week I finally had my application for Google Apps for Your Domain accepted, hurrah! What did this mean? Any email sent to my blah at cgriley.com email addresses was now natively handled by Google, and their fabulous GMail interface, instead of being forward on by various entries in various email accounts. Now it is all managed in one place, and is done so for free!
So, a week in what do I make of it all? Well, I can't argue with the speed and ease of use of GMail, and administering users and email lists is a doddle. Another plus point is I can add other domains that alias my main one to the same account, so any mail sent to cgriley.co.uk automatically falls into my cgriley.com inbox. You also get access to Google Talk/Chat, Calendar, Page Creator, of which Talk and Calendar are particularly useful. Finally, you can add DNS entries to your domain to be CNames to ghs.google.com. and then they will set up handy redirects to your mail, calendar and start page - a simple and functional feature.
Downsides, I'd love Google Reader to be part of Apps for Your Domain, and you can't migrate an existing GMail account to your Apps for Your Domain account (only two things, not bad now is it!)
Anyway, that's my experiance with it so far, anyone else using it day to day and got any comments?
3 Comments
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:27:00 pm
What benefit would having Google Reader as part of GAFYD be (other than being able to sign in using one account)? I doubt they'll ever add it as it doesn't store any personal data such as emails, schedules, etc. and it wouldn't really benefit from being on your domain. Unless they allow you to share your feeds with other users on your domain or something.However, I can see that they might add Blogger, Picasa Web Albums and maybe even Google Video to it.
Innit.
This comment posted by Tony Ruscoe
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:29:00 pm
You've hit it right on the nail, the only benefit of Reader being part of GAFYD would be being able to use one account for everything. That's the only thing that is annoying about it.This comment posted by Chris
Thursday, November 23, 2006 7:09:00 pm
it's just a convenient email handler then? the other services seem irrelevant to site specific admin. no?This comment posted by Anonymous
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