Domains v1.1: Professional Email Forwarding Is Now Built In

A domain should do more than sit in your dashboard.

It should make your business look real. It should help customers reach you. It should give your company a proper identity from the first day you launch.

That is why we are introducing Domains v1.1, with built-in founder email forwarding.

Now, when you buy a domain through IKSF, you can create professional email addresses like:

hello@yourdomain.com
contact@yourdomain.com
support@yourdomain.com

…and receive those emails inside your existing inbox.

No Google Workspace setup.
No DNS confusion.
No MX record stress.
No waiting until “later” to look professional.

Just buy your domain, set up forwarding, verify your inbox, and start receiving email.

Why we built this

Most founders do not need a full email system on day one.

They do not need shared calendars, admin consoles, mailbox storage, or complicated email hosting. At the beginning, what they really need is simpler:

They need to stop sending business emails from a personal Gmail address.

A founder who owns mycompany.com should not still be telling customers to email mycompanyfounder@gmail.com.

That small detail matters. It affects trust. It affects how serious the business looks. It affects how customers, partners, investors, and early users respond.

Domains v1.1 solves that problem at the right level.

It gives founders professional receiving addresses without forcing them into full email hosting before they are ready.

What it does

Founder Email Forwarding lets you create domain-based email addresses and forward incoming messages to an inbox you already use.

For example:

hello@yourdomain.com can forward to your Gmail.
support@yourdomain.com can forward to your team inbox.
contact@yourdomain.com can forward to the founder or operations lead.

IKSF handles the technical work behind the scenes. DNS setup, MX records, verification, and routing are managed as part of the domain workflow.

The founder does not need to understand Cloudflare, DNS records, SPF, DKIM, or email routing.

They only need to know where they want their emails to arrive.

What is included

Every paid domain can include a simple forwarding setup.

The free included tier gives each domain one verified destination inbox and up to three forwarding aliases. The suggested defaults are hello, contact, and support, because those are the addresses most early founders need first.

This tier is intentionally simple. It does not include catch-all forwarding, Worker automation, custom routing logic, or advanced email workflows.

The purpose is not to create complexity.

The purpose is to make a new domain useful immediately.

Introducing Domain Pro

For founders who need more, Domains v1.1 also creates the foundation for Domain Pro.

Domain Pro expands forwarding into a stronger business identity layer. It can support more aliases, up to twenty-five per domain, along with catch-all forwarding, subaddressing support, email health monitoring, founder and team routing presets, priority support for DNS and email issues, and a “send test email” workflow.

This is for founders who want more control, more reliability, and more room to grow.

Over time, this layer can also support future lead capture integrations, so incoming email becomes more than communication. It becomes part of the founder’s operating system.

What this is not

Domains v1.1 is not full mailbox hosting.

It does not give you an inbox. It does not store emails. It does not replace Google Workspace, Zoho Mail, Microsoft 365, or any other full email provider.

It is receive-only forwarding.

That distinction matters.

This feature is for founders who want to receive email at a professional domain address while continuing to use the inbox they already have.

When a founder later needs to send emails from hello@yourdomain.com, manage multiple staff mailboxes, or use business calendars, that is the right time to move into full mailbox setup.

Why it matters

A domain is one of the first signs that a business exists.

But a domain without email still feels unfinished.

With Domains v1.1, IKSF is making the launch process feel complete. A founder can buy a domain, connect a site, and create professional receiving addresses without leaving the platform or fighting technical setup.

That is the real point.

Not email forwarding for its own sake.

A smoother launch.
A more credible founder.
A domain that becomes useful immediately.

Domains v1.1 brings founders one step closer to the thing IKSF exists to make possible:

Launch faster, look sharper, and keep moving.