For $6.99 a year you can have your own mail domain. Something like yourname@yourdomain.com. The route I chose was to go with http://www.1and1.com to order the domain name. I then use Google Apps' Standard Edition to host the mail (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html). The process is fairly straightforward. After registering for the Google app just apply the mail records from Google into the mail records for the domain on 1and1. That's all there is too it, and in a few days your mail will up and running.