How to obtain a free .edu email address - Use an education email address to obtain a summary list of free VPS domain name software

The free .edu email has always been wanted by many people. The reason is that there are many paid resources abroad, such as VPS hosts, domain names, software, etc., which are provided to students for free. The way to verify students is basically to have an educational email. That’s it. Earlier, domestic .edu.cn email addresses could also be used to apply for foreign space and domain names, but now you may need to upload documents.

Of course, there are also some .edu mailboxes on the Internet with the second-level .edu domain name suffix + Gmail domain name mailbox. Although such mailboxes are sometimes useful, they will basically be recognized if they are used to apply for Github student packages, G Suite for Education, etc. come out. Therefore, it is really difficult to find a real and valid .edu email address, and once a free .edu email address is exposed, it is basically GG.

This article will share how to obtain a free .edu email address. This method requires you to actively collect and organize some information to ensure that the .edu email address can be successfully obtained. The applied for .edu email address is similar to the real email address and can be used to apply. Github student package and other various student discounts. Some friends who already have a domestic .edu email can check out this article to see what free VPS, free domain names and free software they can enjoy.

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PS: Updated on November 30, 2017, For more domestic and foreign personal mailboxes and free SMTP sending services, please refer to: Summary of domestic and foreign enterprise (domain name) mailboxes.

1. How to obtain free .edu email

This article talks about how to obtain a free .edu email address. Known free .edu email addresses may be "spoiled" by being applied by too many people because they are public. You can follow this idea to find a real and effective free .edu email address. This is just to provide an idea.

1.1 Collect alumni edu email

Alumni edu email is an alumni email. Many universities in the United States provide alumni emails for graduated alumni, which are basically @alumni.xxx.edu. For example, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (unc) provides @alumni.unc.edu email addresses for alumni. As long as you can provide accurate alumni information, the key is that the requirements are not strict. You only need to provide the alumni's name and birthday.

Here are a few alumni edu email application portals that are not strictly reviewed:

1. University of North Carolina: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1723/02-gaa/index.aspx?gid=2&pgid=8&sid=1723
2. State University of New York: https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1642/02-alumni/index.aspx?sid=1642&gid=2&pgid=8&cid=46
3. University of California, San Diego: The URL is too long, please click here.

1.2 Process of registering .edu email

Here, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (unc) provides an @alumni.unc.edu email application for alumni as an example. Opening the application address will ask you to fill in the name of the alumni.

How to fill in user information? Just use Google to search for unc alumni, and then you can basically find some famous people's names, birthdays and other information in the encyclopedia.

Using this method, we successfully completed the authentication of alumni information.

The next step is to complete your personal information, log in to the management backend, and apply to open an edu mailbox for yourself.

Finally, you can see that your @alumni.unc.edu email address has been successfully opened. You can use this account to log in to Gmail to send and receive emails.

1.3  Collect Community College

Community College, also known as "community college", also known as "two-year university", mainly provides students with study courses and educational foundation in the first two years of university, so that they can continue to connect to four-year university life in the future. Community College is generally open to registration. You only need to fill out an application online and then verify your personal identity to get a student number.

Here is an example of applying for the Oakland Community College.edu email address. For more information, you can directly Google Community College.

1. Oakland Community College: https://www.oaklandcc.edu/

First open the application address to create an account, enter the newly opened page to create an account, and follow the steps to complete the application. When you need to pay attention, remember the name and birthday you filled in, because it will be used to obtain the username later. Please try to be as true as possible when filling in the information, otherwise it will not pass the manual review! (click to enlarge)

After the application is submitted, you will generally receive an email from oaklandcc after 1-2 days, indicating that your application has been successful, but you will need to wait another 2 days to log in to your OCC account. .edu email login address: http://mail.student.oaklandcc.edu/.

After logging in successfully, you can see that this is a Gmail domain mailbox, but we already have a .edu mailbox like wzfou.com@student.oaklandcc.edu.

2. Use .edu email to obtain a free hosting space domain name

You can enjoy a lot of free resources with your edu mailbox. Some services can be enjoyed directly as long as you fill in the .edu mailbox when registering. For example, the educational version of Google Drive has unlimited capacity (with the unlimited version of Google Drive, you can use it to expand the capacity) VPS, method reference: Linux VPS mounting Google Drive).

For more resources, you can directly enter : a summary list of free VPS domain name software available through your education email address . Here is an example of applying for the Github student package . The free services you can enjoy include bitnami, CrowdFlower, DigitalOcean, dnsimple, GitHub, namecheap, etc., including a $50 VPS coupon and a free one-year .me domain name. and SSL certificates, etc.

1. HTTPS://education.GitHub.com/pack

Open the application page, click to get the discount package, then fill in your personal information to register a Github account. Remember to fill in the .edu email address, otherwise you will not be able to obtain this benefit.

After successful registration, return to the application page of the student package and click Apply. You will be asked to confirm whether you are a student. If this page does not appear, please check your .edu email address to see if you have received a verification email. You need to verify your .edu email address before proceeding to the next step.

After submitting the application, wait a moment and you will see that the Github student package has been successfully opened.

Open the Github student package page and click Get. At this time, links or discount codes for free hosting, space, domain name, SSL, software, etc. that you can get will be displayed at the bottom of the page. For example, digitalocean’s $50 discount code.

Free domain name and free SSL certificate from Namecheap.

Sendgrid offers 15,000 free emails per month.

There are also Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Community 2015, Microsoft developer tools, Office 365, etc.

Microsoft Azure can be used to build websites.

Not to mention Office 365, online office and super-large-capacity Onedrive, which are expensive if you pay for them.

3. Summary list of free VPS domain name software available through education email

This table collects a summary list of free VPS domain name software currently available through education mailboxes (including .edu.cn mailboxes). You can search in the upper right corner of the table. Feedback from friends is welcome and I will update it in time.