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Save now by registering or renewing for up to 10 years at the current price.
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Get a personalised and professional email address for your domain and show you're a pro! Stay mobile and check your email anywhere, and always be protected with the best spam and virus protection for your inbox.
Create unlimited email addresses or aliases ([email protected], [email protected]) to forward to any other mailbox or external email address.
Setup an auto-responder to automatically reply to incoming messages when you are out of the office, or on holiday.
Get your email on any Windows, Android or Apple device such as desktop, phone or webmail.
Enjoy a clean and secure inbox with premium anti-spam and virus protection to safeguard every message.
Need help configuring your email? Not a problem, you'll always get helpful and knowledgable support when you need it from our support team by email or free phone.
Access your email anywhere using a web browser and our fully-featured webmail.
Find a .nz domain that matches the name of your business and register it. Claim your free email plan during the registration
Activate and manage your new business email address from the 1st Domains email manager
Access your email on your desktop through our webmail, the Outlook client or connect to your mailbox using your smartphone
Access your private email account on the go, anywhere, anytime through your web browser, any mobile device or desktop email client like Outlook or Mac Mail.
Send and receive email on Windows, Android and Apple devices or use our Webmail to access your emails with a web browser.
The enterprise grade email filtering service by SpamExperts is included free with all email hosting plans and protects your inbox against spam, viruses, phishing scams, malware, ransomware and other email-based threats.
Your inbox stays clean but you'll never miss an important email. Spam is automatically moved into the "Spam" folder so they stay out-of-sight, but available in case you need them.
We have heaps of support guides to help you setup your email, but sometimes you just need to talk to a real human to step you through it.
No worries! Our friendly support team is just a free phone call away, and we're always ready to help.
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POP3 / POP3S
POP3 and Secure POP3 (POP3S) is an email transmission protocol. |
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IMAP / IMAPS
IMAP and Secure IMAP (IMAPS) is an email transmission protocol. |
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| Mail Relaying via SMTP Auth
Send mail from any internet connection with authenticated SMTP. |
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| Mail Submission Port (587)
Send mail on the official mail user agent submission port 587. |
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| Email Aliases
Alias multiple email addresses to a single email mailbox or forwarder. |
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| One-to-One Forwarding
Email addresses that forward to another specific email address. |
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| One-to-Many Forwarding
Email addresses that forward to a group of existing email addresses. |
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| Auto Responders
Create automatic out-of-office replies or vacation messages. |
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| Powerful Spam & Virus Filtering
Leading Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus protection to keep your inbox safe and clean. |
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| Server-Side Message Filters
Create message filtering rules that run at the server rather than in the email client. |
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| Custom Blacklists & Whitelists
Create custom lists for blocked or approved senders. |
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| Webmail Service
Access your email anywhere using a fully-featured Webmail interface. |
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| Mobile Access for Smartphones (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry)
Access your email with Smartphones or any device that supports IMAP. |
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| Custom Mailbox Quotas
Choose the size of a mailbox from your overall domain quota. |
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| 40MB Mail Attachments
Support for sending and receiving large message attachments. |
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| Daily Off-site Backups
Email stores are backed up daily to another location to guard against data loss. |
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| 99.99% Network Uptime Guarantee
We guarantee our core network will be available 99.99% of the time. |
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| 24/7 Server & Network Monitoring
All servers are monitored 24/7 and immediate action is taken if a problem is detected. |
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| Fast NZ Based Messaging Servers
Emails are served from a cluster of powerful messaging servers for exceptional performance and uptime. |
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| Free NZ Phone / Email Support
Free NZ based support is available by email or phone between 8am and 6pm Monday to Friday. |
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PHP 7.x & PHP 8.x
PHP is a popular scripting language and we support multiple versions to ensure that your website works as intended. Supported PHP modules:
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MySQL 5.7 (MariaDB 10.4)
MariaDB is a robust database engine used by many web scripts and applications which maintains high compatibility with MySQL. It is a community-developed fork of MySQL intended to remain free, it is notable for being led by the original developers of MySQL, who forked it due to concerns over its acquisition by Oracle. |
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Excellent customer service through email and phone. Service like this are hard to come by. Very happy to be a customer and will be for as long as I need domain names!
Crystal. PGoogleI've been with 1st Domains for over 15 years. I have several domain names. The customer service is always thorough, helpful and patient! Also awesome talking to a real person! Services are great and the prices are reasonable. I cannot recommend 1st Domains enough.
Grant. TGoogleThese guys have been my hosts for various websites for over ten years :-)
Andrew. BGoogleGreat quick communication when needed. Never had any issues. Thanks team!
Rochelle. SGoogleThe service team helped me find the right domain for my business and set me up with email. Lee and the team are legends!
Ryan. BGoogleChris, Byron the list goes on of amazing technical support. They go above and beyond. The best in the game!
Dan. HGoogle
1st Domains has everything you need to make your idea real. We're proudly New Zealand owned and love helping Kiwis get online with affordable domain names, website hosting and email.