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Old Mar 31, 2007 | 7:16 am
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Originally Posted by yosithezet
Glad I stumbled on this thread since I hadn't checked out Google for Domains since it first came out. I'm in a somewhat similar situation to the OP. Currently I have all of my mail addresses routed to gmail for the great spam filter and whatnot. Once I've already identified an address that is getting lots of spam I can ask my domain registrar to just send that mail to the trash without forwarding it to me.

What is not clear to me is if I can set up third level domains which direct to something outside of Google. I'd be happy to have Google manage all of my mail and whatnot but the one thing that kept me from signing up originally is that I host my website on a unix box I am quite happy with. So can I move my domain to Google through one of their partners, have the benefits of free family Google Apps and the accompanying free mail accounts but have a third level domain point to another box?
Yes, as long as your ISP lets you configure your own DNS. I have my MX settings point to Google, and my web, ftp and other stuff points to my webserver.
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