Personal Email Domain Recommendations?

[Ben]

I've had my current main email account so long that when I first got it, I was able to just use plain old benw (instead of benw347656540894875849) on my very large national ISP. So long that even with filters, I just get way too many spams to deal with anymore.

I'm thinking of "disusing" my current primary email address and doing the "personal domain" thing so I can just be ben@ben.com or whatever, and keep that no matter who my ISP is. I was googling the various sites that provide this service, but there's a lot of them out there.

Do any of you use a personal domain? If so, any recommendations on good deals / reliable providers? I'm pretty much looking for simple email access, no big webhosting or anything, but I would like a solution that lets me use Thunderbird (versus a webmail only solution).

[Felonious Monk/Fignozzle]

I've thought about it too, and own a domain but haven't set it up.  Bought it through GoDaddy.  

Since I own my specific firstlast@domain.com at hotmail, yahoo, and gmail, I kind of hate to get rid of them.  
The only one I've REALLY had problems with is my Mail.com accounts.

They get hijacked and used to send spam constantly.  I've notified the admins MULTIPLE times.  
Mail dot com SUCKS!

[Standing Wolf]

If you really, truly, sincerely, deeply enjoy spam, use your name at your domain. I average at least 150 pieces of spam a day.

Better still, you'll soon find serious spammers "borrowing" variations on your E-mail address. One day, I received over 400 server responses informing me my E-mails for a fraudulent "medical" products site in Bulgaria couldn't be delivered.

Naturally, I reported the latter problem to the F., the B., and the I., a couple internet fraud organizations, and Interpol. No one even bothered to acknowledge my reports.

[Ben]

What I'm planning on doing if I go the domain route is to only use that email address for things like emails to close friends and family, online banking, and other secure transactions while using a "throwaway" account for other stuff. I know that I'll still be subject to spam on the primary account, but hopefully at much reduced rates.

I've had my current primary for 10 years now, and up until a couple of years ago used it for pretty much everything. I too have gotten the 874 per day "undeliverable" notices from mailservers stating they couldn't deliver the pornographic or other spam sent via my spoofed email addy. All I can say is, a pox on spammers. I hate them all.

[cfabe]

I use easydns.com for my domain and dns service for my personal webserver and they also redirect any email from my domain to an email address. So I use my first@last.net address for 'important' stuff and have it redirected to a gmail address. For everything spammy I have it sent directly to the gmail address, and when spam gets bad, I'll just switch to a different gmail address.

[bermbuster]

I use godaddy.com.  The .name suffix is now available if you can't get .com  So is .us

I direct all my mail to my main *bigname* cable address.  I use yahoo addresses and hotmail for spammy stuff.

[Dave Markowitz]

I have the davemarkowitz.net domain bought and hosted at Pair.com.  They aren't the cheapest but their hosting and support are excellent.  Last year they implement some really good antivirus and antispam filtering and the amount of spam I get at that domain plummetted to a fraction of what I was seeing before.  I'm very pleased with Pair.