AOL, the company that made public the private search information of 650,000 customers, is giving out free domain names, according to CNET. The catch, of course, is you don't own it; AOL does. And the
company can keep whatever information is on it--and sell it to advertisers. You can use the domain as your email address, your home page--whatever. So can friends, families and members of the same
club or organization. This might have been a cool idea before the company's massive PR gaffe, but in light of recent developments, let's just say AOL isn't exactly top-of-mind when it comes to
companies you can trust. The service is called AOL My eAddress. It's free, and it supports .com and .net domains, up to 100 email identities per domain, 2 G of storage, spam filtering and open mail
clients like Microsoft Outlook. My eAddress is part of Time Warner's strategy to stop the exodus of AOL subscribers. Most recently, 1 million subscribers defected in the second quarter. The company
has lost more than one-third of its subscribers since its peak in 2002.
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