Tech Rant of the Day

Well today I was accepted into the gMail for your domain program. Which basically will let me use the gMail interface to manage my e-mail for the address's that I currently have setup @tristanpipo.com. Currently I offer this service to 5 people. If you would like an e-mail address I got a few to pass out. Maybe one day a lucky girl will get mygirlfriend@tristanpipo.com mwa ha ha. (Imagines someone in reality bursting my bubble).

Anyways I use GoDaddy.com to manage my domains. I must say that I have a bone to pick with this service. They will not let you manually configure a DNS server unless you use their company for their webservices. I currently manage my webserver what would be called off site. Now for those who have no clue what I am talking about. DNS stands for Domain Name Service and this has many different types of services.

There is an (A) record for address record which takes a name for example tristanpipo.com and points it to the IP address 67.15.58.188.

There is a CNAME Record which stands for Canonical Name which basically allows a machine to be known by more then one host name. Like XmDude.com and SiriusDude.com are CNAME's of TristanPipo.com my main domain name.

But the one I am really wanting to focus on are (MX) Records which stand for mail exchange which is how the internet knows who is where and what user belongs to what e-mail service and so forth. So when you send an e-mail to Tristan@TristanPipo.com all these DNS servers that are connected to each other know where to send the mail based on the DNS information that is stored on every DNS nameserver in the world. And the MX Record tells it how to reach the e-mail server.

Now GoDaddy in all it's wise wisdom does not let you change this at all. Unless you park your domain with them. I use GoDaddy to register the name so that I claim the rights to those domain names. I also own another name but I like Mike take care of that. I just foot the bill. ;-)

But since I have the opportunity to test this awesome way to manage mail. I love gMail with the labels and the filters. I currently have over 30 filters setup for my gMail account since on average it gets about 40-60 e-mails a day that I have to read. If I can use Google Mail for my Domain and import all those filters my life would be so much easier and having web access for that service is so freaking awesome.

But GoDaddy again has found a way to fuck this cool idea over. Now I search for a new company to transfer my domains to. I sent off an e-mail to my webservers tech support to see what they can offer me. But until then I can't wait to try you gMail for my domain.

On a side note I have been working on a new blog series. I should have episode 1 done in a few days. Also it's April. Birthday is next month. Time to come up with what I want. It's good to be selfish once and a while.