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  utilitiesandenergy · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 6:26 am

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  Hi, i just bought a domain, utilitiesandenergy.com. how do i go about creating myself an email address with this domain, (email visible only to moderators and staff)
  thanks for your response

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 7:11 am

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  Did you look at the Support site? Here’s what I found by searching for “domain email”

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/google-apps-email/

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  utilitiesandenergy · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 4:03 pm

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  thanks, i just completed the process and now have to wait for the verification. btw, do you know if i have to make my paid-for site, utilitiesandenergy.com, the primary site to use email? As of now, my primary blog is the wordpress site and paid-for site points to it.

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 10:02 pm

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  First of all, for clarity, you didn’t pay for your site. You paid for your domain.

  There is no advantage in pointing http://utilitiesandenergy.com to http://utilitiesandenergy.wordpress.com/ and in fact you should make your domain name the primary domain in the Domain dashboard. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/register-domain/

  Whether you need to set your primary domain to utilitiesandenergy.com to use google apps for email, I’m afraid I do not know for sure, but my guess by looking at the support doc is yes. Hopefully another forum volunteer or staff can assist with an answer.

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  gregseek1st · Member · Feb 25, 2012 at 11:24 pm

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  I’m looking for answers to the same problem, but am not wanting to use google apps to set up the email account; is there a way to do this using Windows Live?

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 26, 2012 at 5:57 am

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  I would suspect that the process could be carried over to any email provider that supports MX records for a domain hosted elsewhere, but again do not know for sure. You will need to look at the support documentation/help center on Windows Live.