I though, this would be a nice topic to start the week with. Many times you are standing before the decision. You have bought a domain name and now you do have a hosting for it as well. The next step is to bring the whole web site to life. And now comes the question. Should you use your own mail address e.g. your_name(at)your_domain.com, or should you go with a third party email solution e.g. Gmail or Yahoo! Mail?
Looking professional
The answer to the question is basically about how you want to be seen. Do you want to have a professionally looking image, or it’s not that important for you? This is the basic question you need to ask yourself. If you are trying to sell some kind of product, or service, than the image is an important thing for you and I think, it would make much more sense to go with your own email address. It adds the professional look and feel. You can always direct your customers to a third party mail address afterwards.
An own email address is not only about the image. It also helps to identify you on the Internet. Many people could 
register with your name at third party email services, but only you can create an email account based on your domain name! It is adds security and trustworthiness !!!
You don’t need to worry about how many mail accounts you will need and it’s good to start with just one, or two and add more if you will need them. Many hosts offer you the option to create hundreds of accounts, but you need to know, that they can share the same web space. This means you could be able to create 1000 accounts, but they would all share the same 2GB of storage 
Looking secure, but less professional and trustworthy
I would like to take back this headline, namely the part, that this is looking less trustworthy. It’s very trustworthy, but only as long as your clients really know you and know that you are using a third party service. Else it is not very trustworthy as virtually anyone could create an e-mail account with Yahoo! Mail or Lycos and they could start to pretend they are you!
Use this very carefully and be sure to advertise to your clients what address is yours and what service you are using!!! To use third party services is a good thing if you are trying to get more out of your email as they tend to offer far more things and add-ons, than you could use with your own e-mail account based on your domain name.
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