Email Hosting

Email hosting is similar to web hosting in the sense that it needn't necessarily be hosted by either your registrar or web host providers. This is another case of selecting the host that makes the most sense for your particular situation. Using myself as an example, several of my domains' email accounts are hosted by Google's Gmail service. This is configured by making a change to the DNS records for your domain. You can see that email routing is also controlled by entries in the DNS records. This is how it is possible to direct different types of domain traffic to different servers. In the screen shot above, in fact, you can see a few entries (called CNAMEs) that create sub-domains that direct traffic to completely different servers and/or services like email, calendar, shared documents, etc...