Informed Webmaster

When you see someone using a free email address as their business email address do you trust them?

Why Use Domain-Based Email?

It is normal to do this if you're running a business or even a blog. You want your email addresses to jive with your brand. But, I think this is something you might want to consider doing even for personal email.

But, why?

For bloggers and business owners:
•It gives you the ability to use multiple email addresses for different purposes and keep things much more organized.
•It allows your email addresses to fit your brand and hence make them more memorable.
•It means you can pick whatever email address(es) you want without having to worry about whether that username is already taken.
•Most email hosting providers will simply not let you use a free email service as the "reply to" address on your emails to your list. You MUST use domain-based email.

For individuals:
•You can pick whatever email address you want (as long as the domain is your's, of course).
•You can easily set up multiple addresses for organizational purposes.
•You never have to change your email address. Even if you migrate email services or change email clients, you keep your address.

For these reasons, I personally think a domain-based email of your choosing is better than something like Gmail.