NameHero
Email hosting from $3.16 a month at first (usually $7.90), 50 GB. Based in United States.
Last checked 25 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Email hosting
$3.16 a month at first (usually $7.90), 50 GB - Free plan
- No
- Storage
- 50 GB
- Your own domain
- ✓ Yes
- End-to-end encryption
- No
- Company based in
- United States
- Your data is kept in
- United States or Europe
- Founded
- Unknown
- Free trial
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- No
- Aliases
- Yes
- Open-source apps
- No
- Sign up without ID
- No
- White label
- Unknown
- Reader offer
- None
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things NameHero controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 0.9 points are confirmed. How it's worked out
Reliability 0 of 1
- Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1
Abuse and reputation 0 of 0.75
- Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
- Publishes a way to report abuseNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.4 of 1
- DMARC set to quarantine (reject scores in full)From my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Partly: 0.2/0.4
- MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
- Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
Account security 0 of 0.5
- Two-step sign-inNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- PasskeysNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Transparency 0 of 0.75
- A security contact (security.txt or a security page)Not checked yet: 0/0.25
- A transparency report, or a published policy on government requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5
- You can copy all your mail out with any mail app (IMAP)Yes: 0.25/0.25
- You can cancel onlineNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Support 0.25 of 0.5
- A way to reach a person, listed on its website SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25
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Plans
4 plans
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges.
Before you sign up
Not checked yet
- Taking your email with you
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- How to cancel
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Refunds
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Minimum term
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Taken from NameHero's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
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Features
Not checked yet
- Your own domain✓ Yes
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contactsNo
- Open sourceNo
- White label (resell as your own)Unknown Suggest an edit
- Two-step sign-inUnknown Suggest an edit
- PasskeysUnknown Suggest an edit
- PGP encryptionUnknown Suggest an edit
- Password-protected email to anyoneUnknown Suggest an edit
- Catch-all addressUnknown Suggest an edit
- Filters and rulesUnknown Suggest an edit
- Sieve filtersUnknown Suggest an edit
- Auto-replyUnknown Suggest an edit
- Scheduled sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Undo sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Import from another providerUnknown Suggest an edit
- Mobile appsUnknown Suggest an edit
- Desktop appUnknown Suggest an edit
- POP3Unknown Suggest an edit
- CalDAV and CardDAV syncUnknown Suggest an edit
- JMAPUnknown Suggest an edit
- Tor (onion) addressUnknown Suggest an edit
- Pay with cash or cryptoUnknown Suggest an edit
- Export all your mailUnknown Suggest an edit
- APIUnknown Suggest an edit
- AI featuresUnknown Suggest an edit
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
4 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- namehero.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Acceptable use policy
- namehero.com/legal/aup
- Terms of service
- namehero.com/legal/tos
- Report abuse
- Unknown Suggest an edit
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for namehero.com
From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.
Company and servers
Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
- Founded
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Domain first registered
- 2001 (namehero.com)
- Website hosted in
- 🌐 Worldwide network (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- United States (Google LLC)
smtp.google.com - Mail security records
- SPF strict (-all) · DMARC quarantine · No MTA-STS · No TLS reporting
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- Cloudflare
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website and mail servers
- Website certificate
- Sectigo Limited · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 717 ms · HTTPS with HSTS
My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses, and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.
News
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Price history
1 price since 25 October 2026
Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.
- 25 October 2026 $3.16 a month at first (usually $7.90), 50 GB, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
Sources
2 sources
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