Summary

Though this used to cost over $35 per year, competition among domain name registration services has forced the price down below $10 annually. E-mail hosting too has dropped to the same price, making it affordable for most people to own an e-mail domain with their own name on it.

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• Personal domain names aren't just for Web sites any more.
• Growing numbers of Net users are registering domain names so they can create and control their own e-mail addresses.
• It's a smart idea and one that's increasingly affordable, as both the price of domain name registration and the cost of e-mail hosting have plunged.
• Domain registration lets you create an address for yourname.com --- or virtually anything else you please --- on the Internet.
• Competition among companies that register domain names has squeezed the annual cost of owning a domain name to well below $10 in most cases, a sharp discount from the $35 a year it once cost.
• A domain name alone isn't much good, however.
• In fact, it's rather like having a phone number and no phone.
• What you need with it is some Internet real estate, a place where messages directed to your new address can go.
• For those who don't want a personal Web site, Internet hosting companies are pushing e-mail-only hosting services that simply catch the e-mail sent to your domain name until you come to collect it.
• Domain registration companies sometimes use e-mail hosting to drive more domain business, so you'll often find e-mail hosting services available from those providers.
• Some offer e-mail hosting for less than $10 a year.
• What that means is you can have your own Internet e-mail address --- let's say, somebodysomebody.com --- for under $20 a year.
• That sure beats hanging on to an old e-mail address that you once got stuck with.
• E-mail hosting accounts are cheaper and, therefore, less profitable, than full Web site hosting, so you have to dig a little to find these services, but they are out there.

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