Choosing a List Domain

When we set up your account, we create an email address which represents all the addresses on your list. When you send an email to that address, our system verifies that it's from you, then sends the message to your subscribers in minutes.

That email address consists of the name of your list and your "list domain," e.g., newsletter@lists.your_company.com.

In our example, the list domain is lists.your_company.com. It is used:

• as the location where you and your subscribers log in to manage the lists and subscriptions.
• in the failsafe unsubscribe links appended to all outgoing list messages.
• optionally in the From: address for messages sent to your subscribers, if you want additional junk filtering done (most accounts over 1,000 subscribers do). Alternatively, you may specify your own email address as the From: when sending to the list.

There are two kinds of list domains -- standard and virtual -- and we have about a 50/50 distribution in client usage. Both options integrate with your website by providing a customized subscription form for your website and a branded interface with your organization's banner and choice of color pallette. In brief, you would choose a standard domain for speed and simplicity of set-up, and a virtual domain if it is important that BIGLIST be behind the scenes as much as possible. More details are below.

Standard Service

BIGLIST will set up a list domain using your company name or acronym as part of the mailing list website address.

Advantages:

• We have total control over the domain and can set it up properly, same day.
• You can leverage the goodwill of the biglist.com domain, which is explicitly whitelisted with some Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Disadvantages:

• The biglist.com domain is visible in the circumstances listed above.

Virtual Service

Registering a New Domain

You can register a new domain name to use with our services:

Creating a Subdomain

Creating a subdomain allows you to use the same top level domain name you use for your organization's website and email.

Please contact us for a complete list of registrars which are known to support subdomain creation with the option to delegate nameservers.