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FREE CYBER REAL ESTATE
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Yes, real estate is free on the World Wide Web! You can get free web space and free e-mail accounts a plenty. More and more of your major sites are adding these features.
There are different types of free web and e-mail services. According to what your needs are, you can use these to expand your cyberspace real estate tremendously. The first step is to have your own Internet Service Provider (ISP) with your own e-mail address. Using a computer at the library or someone else's account won't get you these free services. Also, with free web sites you need either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer or your own FTP (file transfer protocol) software to put more than a few lines on your site.

FREE E-MAIL: This is where you get your own e-mail account and unique address, but you check your e-mail by logging in at the service's web site.
HOTBOT , MAIL CITY , YAHOO! , and Microsoft's Hot Mail are the most popular. Most free web site services and portals also offer free e-mail inorder to get you to log-in regularly.

FREE E-MAIL FORWARDING: This is where you get your own unique e-mail address, but any mail sent to this address is forwarded to your ordinary e-mail account. The above free e-mail services can have mail sent to another site forwarded to their site. But, a couple of services can give you a very interesting e-mail address to impress your friends which only forwards the mail to your regular account.
MYownEMAIL has one of the greatest selections of free custom e-mail addresses. They have over 100 funny and impressive domain names plus others for a small cost. They also have free webpages.
iNAME is another forwarding service with many free and interesting domain names.

FREE WEB PAGES: This is a concept began by Geocities and has been copied by numerous others. The amount of web space you can gather is virtually unlimited.
Geocities is the grandaddy, but the URLs are long and spread across a few dozen "neighborhoods". The style of Geocities have changed about every year. It is now almost a portal. You can create pages online without FTP if you want something simple. Currently 11 MB per page.
TRIPOD is one of the best, now part of Lycos which includes ANGELFIRE , a family oriented free web space service. Tripod has lots of options on 10 MB and Angelfire will give you 5 MB, up from where they started with 250K.
INFOSEEK offers unlimited web space after it bought WBS.NET , one of the early pioneers. It seems that Infoseek and WBS.net is the same service now, but you can sort of get two pages by registering with both. Have found lots of problems with logging-in at Infoseek.
The Globe is much like Tripod or Geocities, but it puts a pop-up ad on your page when someone surfs to it. Tripod dropped this feature as some browsers have problems with it. TheGlobe also requires a cookie and uses default.htm rather than index.html as the main page on your site.
XOOM is another copycat of the above free web sites.
DELPHI is a former ISP from the days when Internet access was all text. It now is trying to reinvent itself as a free web site and portal. The log-in is tricky. If you forget your password Delphi changes you to a new one and sends it to your main e-mail, but gives you only 48 hours to use it.
HOTBOT also offers free web sites, but the 5 MB you get is shared with your e-mail account.

FREE URL FORWARDING SERVICES try to give you a simple to remember URL for people to access your web site without the expense of registering a real domain name of your own. This business took off after small nations like tongo opened up their domain names to the rest of the world. Two companies dominate right now. You can reach them by trying some of the simple URLS:
come.to ... welcome.to ... hello.to ...