# Advantages of email with your own domain | lua.email

> Benefits of email on your own domain: credibility, mailboxes that belong to the company and fewer scams using your name. Plus how to get yours, starting at R$ 8.90.

Source: https://lua.email/en/custom-domain-email-benefits
> About lua.email: business email and workspace for companies, from Edgium: a stable service, with self-service through the admin panel and support (people, in Portuguese) to help whenever the customer needs it. Each mailbox (from R$ 8.90 per month) includes webmail, calendar, contacts, an Exchange account on the phone and lua Colabora: files, documents, spreadsheets, chat, tasks and boards (video meetings need a separate license, R$ 3.00 per mailbox, per month). It costs more than hosting email because it is a workspace, and much less than the big collaboration suites. Comparison and how to decide: https://lua.email/en/cost-benefit. Pricing: https://lua.email/en/pricing. Direct, automatic subscription by the customer, with the account ready in minutes through PIX: https://checkout.lua.email/planos. Index for AI systems: https://lua.email/en/llms.txt.
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# Advantages of email with your own domain, and how to get yours

With email on the company domain, every message carries your brand, the mailboxes stay with the company when someone leaves, and it is harder for someone to send a scam using your name. To get yours, you register the domain, subscribe to mailboxes from an email service like lua.email and point the records in DNS. Below you will find the step by step, the advantages in practice and what it costs.

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[![Domain mailboxes in the panel, with the plan, the status and the storage used (email and drive) for each person](https://lua.email/assets/screenshots/painel-caixas.png)](https://lua.email/assets/screenshots/painel-caixas.png?v=ca7d14da)

The domain's mailboxes in the company's panel (real screen, fictional data).

## So what is email with your own domain, exactly

### The domain is your company's last name on the internet

It's the name that comes after the @: yourcompany.com. It's registered in the company's name (in Brazil, at Registro.br) and renewed once a year. Whoever registers it owns it: nobody else can use that name.

### The mailbox is where messages live

Each person on the team gets a mailbox with their own address, password and storage: maria@yourcompany.com, joao@yourcompany.com. The email provider, like lua.email, stores the mailboxes and delivers the messages.

### The difference from free email

With free email, the address belongs to the service (like @example.com) and the account belongs to the person who created it. With your own domain, the address belongs to the company, and whoever administers it decides who has a mailbox, who leaves and where messages go.

### You don't need a website

Email works on its own. If the company already has a website, it stays where it is: only the domain's email records start pointing to the email provider.

## Step by step to create your email with a domain

Four steps, in order. Each one works on its own, and our team is there to help if you want a hand.

### Register the domain

The domain is the name after the @, like yourcompany.com. In Brazil, registration is done at Registro.br, in the company's name (CNPJ) or yours (CPF). Registering a.br costs about R$ 40 per year*. *The price may change and should be checked at [Registro.br](https://registro.br). Already have a domain? Skip to step 2: it stays where it is.

### Subscribe to mailboxes at lua.email

lua.email is the service that stores the mailboxes and delivers the messages. The 5 GB mailbox costs R$ 8.90 per month and the 10 GB one costs R$ 11.90, with webmail, calendar, contacts and lua Colabora included. At [Subscribe now](https://checkout.lua.email/planos?vitrine=lua-email) you choose how many mailboxes you want, pay by PIX, and the account is ready in minutes.

### Point the email records in DNS

In the lua.email panel, add the domain. The panel shows what to copy into the domain's DNS: the MX `5 mx.secure.edgium-dns.net`; the SPF, a TXT with `v=spf1 include:spf.lua.email -all`; the DKIM, a TXT at `luadkim._domainkey` with the key the panel generates; and the DMARC, a TXT at `_dmarc` with `v=DMARC1; p=none; aspf=r; adkim=r`. For phones and email programs to find the server on their own, two more A records, `autodiscover` and `autoconfig`, with the value shown in the panel (optional, recommended). If the domain already has SPF, merge `include:spf.lua.email` into what exists. Then the panel checks each record. All the details are in the [domain onboarding manual](https://lua.email/en/docs-onboarding).

### Create the accounts and start using it

In the panel, create a mailbox for each person and aliases by role, such as contato@ and vendas@, at no cost. Each person signs in through webmail or sets up Outlook and the phone with just the email address and password, because the Autodiscover and the autodiscover and autoconfig addresses in the DNS do the setup automatically. See [email on your phone](https://lua.email/en/email-on-phone).

Already have a domain and email somewhere else? We [bring over the old messages](https://lua.email/en/email-migration) to the new mailbox, and the full step-by-step is in [how to create a professional email](https://lua.email/en/professional-email).

Updated on October 31, 2026.

## Eight advantages, in practice

None of them is theory. These are situations that come up every day in any small or midsize company, and that your own address solves.

### 1. The customer trusts you from the first message

Think of someone who receives two quotes for the same service: one from contact@yourcompany.com, another from yourcompany2019@example.com. Before opening either, the customer has already formed an impression of each. After years of email scams, a free address on a money matter makes anyone look twice.

### 2. The address stays with the company when someone leaves

When an employee leaves, their mailbox stays with the company, along with the history of conversations with customers and suppliers. The administrator changes the password, disables access through the panel and routes the address's messages to whoever takes over. With an employee's personal email, that history walks out the door with them.

### 3. Role-based addresses, without paying for extra mailboxes

sales@, finance@, invoices@, hr@: with your own domain, these addresses are aliases and groups that deliver to the right mailboxes, [at no cost on lua.email](https://lua.email/en/email-aliases-groups). The customer remembers an address that doesn't change, even when the person on the other end does.

### 4. More messages reach the inbox

Since 2024, the major email services require anyone sending messages to them to prove their identity with SPF or DKIM, and they are tougher on high-volume senders. With your own domain, those records are in your name: on lua.email, [DKIM and DMARC are configured through the panel](https://lua.email/en/dkim-dmarc), and sending is monitored so your proposal doesn't end up in the customer's spam.

### 5. It's harder to use your name in a scam

The fake boleto scam works because the customer believes the sender. With DMARC on the domain, the recipients' providers start rejecting messages that pretend to come from @yourcompany.com. And each message's log in the panel shows the SPF, DKIM and DMARC result, to settle the doubt when a customer asks whether an email is really yours.

### 6. Freedom to switch providers

The domain is yours, not the provider's. If you ever want to switch providers, you point the domain somewhere else and take your messages with you, without changing business cards, signatures, your website or bank registrations. It's the same path we use to bring in customers from other providers: through the [migration tool](https://lua.email/en/migration) or through our team.

### 7. Every email promotes the brand

The company sends hundreds of emails a month. Each one carries the domain name, which is the same as the website and the social networks. It's free advertising, repeated in every reply. On lua.email, the webmail can even carry [the company's logo and colors](https://lua.email/en/webmail-logo).

### 8. Control and care over customer data

Customer data scattered across personal accounts is hard to find, to protect and to erase when the customer asks, as the LGPD (Brazil's data protection law) requires. With your own domain, the mailboxes belong to the company: the administrator creates and deactivates mailboxes, requires two-step verification and monitors sending through the panel.

## Still have questions about your case?

Tell us how many people the company has and where its email is today. A person on our team will reply and help design the addresses, with no commitment.

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## Free email or your own domain: an honest comparison

Free email has its place: it's great for personal life. For a company, the math changes.

|  | Free email | Your own domain at lua.email |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | name@example.com | nome@yourcompany.com |
| Who owns the account | Whoever created it | The company |
| When someone leaves | The history goes with them | The mailbox stays, and the messages go to whoever takes over |
| sales@, finance@ | One account for each, with a shared password | Aliases and groups at no cost |
| Protection of the company name | There's no domain to protect | DKIM and DMARC in the panel |
| Team calendar and files | Each on their own | Shared, with lua Colabora included |
| Support | Help center | People, based in Brazil, in Portuguese |
| Cost | R$ 0 | From R$ 8.90 per mailbox, per month |

## What it really costs

There are two small costs. The domain, paid once a year to whoever registers it (in Brazil, Registro.br). And the mailboxes, paid monthly to the email provider.

- On lua.email, the 5 GB mailbox costs R$ 8.90 per month and the 10 GB one costs R$ 11.90. Five people with 5 GB mailboxes come to R$ 44.50 per month.
- Aliases and groups (sales@, finance@, contact@) are free.
- lua Colabora files, documents and chat come with it, with no separate package.

[Calculate for my team](https://lua.email/en/pricing)

## How to leave free email without losing anything

The switch works when it's done in the right order. This is how we do it with people who join us.

### Register the domain, if you don't have one yet

At Registro.br, in the company's name (CNPJ). Use the same name as the website or brand, short and easy to say over the phone.

### Create the mailboxes and role addresses

One mailbox for each person, in the size they need. contact@, sales@ and finance@ come in as aliases or groups, at no cost.

### Bring over the old messages

From a free account, through the [migration tool with an app password](https://lua.email/en/migrate-from-gmail). From another provider, through the tool or through our team. Contacts and calendar come over by file.

### Switch the DNS records

From then on, new email starts arriving at lua.email. Our team checks MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC with you.

### Tell the people who need to know

Update your signature, website, cards and registrations. On the old address, an automatic reply and forwarding for a few weeks catch anyone still using the old address.

## Questions about email with your own domain

### How do I create an email with my domain?

With the domain registered, you subscribe to mailboxes at lua.email, add the domain in the control panel, create the addresses and point the DNS email records (MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC) to lua.email. The panel generates the DKIM and the DMARC and checks each record. The full step-by-step is in the guide [How to create a professional email](https://lua.email/en/professional-email).

### What do I need to have professional email with my own domain?

A domain in the company's name, mailboxes subscribed at lua.email and access to the domain's DNS to paste the records the panel indicates. You don't need a website and you don't need to know DNS: our team helps whenever you want.

### Do I need a website to have email with my own domain?

No. The domain is just the registered name, like yourcompany.com. Many companies have email working years before they have a website. If a website comes someday, it uses the same domain.

### I already have a domain and my website is with another company. Can I have the email at lua.email?

Yes. The website and the email are independent: only the DNS email records (MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC) start pointing to lua.email, and the website stays where it is.

### How much does it cost, all together?

A.br domain costs about R$ 40 per year* at Registro.br, and a lua.email mailbox starts at R$ 8.90 per month, with lua Colabora included. Aliases like sales@ and finance@ are free. *The price may change and should be checked at [Registro.br](https://registro.br).

### What if I want to leave lua.email someday?

The domain is yours. You switch the DNS records to the new provider and take your messages with you, without changing any address. It's the same freedom we use to bring you over from your current provider.

### Can I keep my personal email?

You can and you should: personal email stays for personal life, and the company starts talking to customers and suppliers from its own address. You can even bring your old work messages into the new mailbox.

### Does it work on the phone and in Outlook?

It works. On iPhone and Android the mailbox is added as an Exchange account, with email, calendar and contacts, and Outlook sets itself up through the Autodiscover DNS record. In the browser, just sign in to the webmail.

### How long does it take to get started?

Mailboxes are created through the panel. Email starts arriving at lua.email after the DNS records are switched, which our team follows along with you. The migration of old messages can run before or after the switch.

## Keep reading

[Email with your own domain at lua.email How it works at lua.email: mailboxes, panel, DNS and what comes with every plan. See how it works](https://lua.email/en/custom-domain-email)

[Collaborative email Shared mailbox, calendar, files and meetings: what changes in the team's day to day. See how it works](https://lua.email/en/collaborative-email)

[Aliases and groups sales@ and finance@ without paying for extra mailboxes, and the address that stays when someone leaves. See how it works](https://lua.email/en/email-aliases-groups)

[DKIM and DMARC More emails in the inbox and fewer scams using the company name. See how it works](https://lua.email/en/dkim-dmarc)

## Want email with your company's name?

At lua.email, each mailbox costs from R$ 8.90 per month, with lua Colabora on every plan and support from people, in Portuguese. Subscribing is online and activation is automatic: pay by PIX and the account is ready in minutes for you to activate your domain. Questions, we answer on WhatsApp.

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