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Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by IshKebab »

damiante wrote: post #19
donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

I just use domain forwarding to have my inbound emails to my custom domain address land in my plain old Gmail account, and outbound ones to forward to my domain. All the benefits of Gmail at no cost.

Are your outbound emails signed?

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by a1371 »

Until recently I liked ZOHO. For the charity that I worked for, we built our website around ZOHO. They made us buy 7 licenses at the regular price, and that was a pretty tough arrangement for us. We only had one actual user. The rest were because a bunch of volunteers using one particular product. Zoho would not accept that fact. So we are a bigger part of that $1B than we like.

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by Lio »

r_singh wrote: post #5
acchow wrote: post #4

> Sridhar Vembu of Zoho said that no other company has built a billion dollar product company in India. India has no other billion dollar product companies? Doesn’t Tata sell cars?

I think he means software product company. Anyhow, regardless of that his statement is inaccurate because Zoho IS NOT an Indian company. Majority of its employees are in India (and the founder is Indian) but that's true for a lot of other international companies as well, that doesn't make them Indian.

As you say the majority of staff are in India, the founder is Indian but also crucially the major stakeholder[1] is also Indian and lives in India.

I'm not sure how they could be anything else but Indian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Vembu

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by propogandist »

damiante wrote: post #19
donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

I just use domain forwarding to have my inbound emails to my custom domain address land in my plain old Gmail account, and outbound ones to forward to my domain. All the benefits of Gmail at no cost.

Voluntarily routing all your email to the free service offered by the data mining ad company is foolish.

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by Reticulate »

sofixa wrote: post #20
nells wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yandex mail is better and it allows custom domain for free.

Yeah, but: a) a lot of places block Russia and China wholesale against spam b) they'e hosted in a genocidal regime without rule of law completely beholden to a dictator's whims. Pass.

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Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by creata »

kybernetikos wrote: post #8
donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

I'm very happy with fastmail on my custom domain. They even have tools for managing your dns records.

And serving a static site, if you're especially lazy. :)

Re: Zoho's annual revenues surpassed $1B in 2021

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Post by uxx »

nells wrote: post #6
donmcronald wrote: post #3

AFAIK they’re the only decent email provider that offers a free account that allows a custom domain. I use the $1/month mail lite plan. It’s nice to have an option that doesn’t cost as much as Microsoft and Google for people that want email on a custom domain, but don’t need all the cruft (drive, apps, etc).

Yandex mail is better and it allows custom domain for free.

How is it better? as far as i know the other options are more feature rich
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