Email Hosting

If there is one single and important reason to buy your own domain name it’s to obtain and retain a unique email address that can’t be taken from you. If you think you’re current email address is safe then think again because in today’s economy no company is immune. It also means that current companies might be shut down their email hosting services to weather the economic storm. Over the years there have been several companies that have shut down their email hosting services or switched them to pay services.

Getting a domain name and getting an email host is incredibly economical these days. Here are a few major domain registration companies listed here that will help you get started with getting a domain name.

Godaddy

Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, which also sells e-business related software and services. In early 2009 it had reached nearly 30 million domain names under management.

Dotster

Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, Dotster has established itself among the world's largest domain name registrars with more than 3 million domain holdings under management and servicing hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide.