I recently moved my email domain for wewritesoftware.com to the new Microsoft Windows Live Domains.  Microsoft will host your email for you on their servers, the ones used by Hotmail.

You get 40 email accounts and full management of them via an administration screen.  Overall it was a very easy task.  The Windows Live site lists the following features:

Create up to 40 e-mail accounts within your domain

Get a 250 MB inbox for each account*

Check your e-mail from any Web-enabled PC

Junk e-mail filter protection using Microsoft SmartScreen technology

Virus scanning and cleaning of e-mail

Seamless access with MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, etc.

It sounded pretty good so I figured I would give it a try.  I had to goto my domain hosting company and change my DNS MX recrord to point to Microsoft Live per their instructions, verified the DNS from Windows Live and I was done.  Below you can see the management screen:

 

After the easy verification and testing it all just work.  I can send email to my wewritesoftware.com domain and it is all free.

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Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) is being held September 13-16 2005 in Los Angeles, CA.  It looks like a great time and one you don’t to miss with sure discussions on VS 2005, Avalon, Indigo and Longhorn.

Channel 9 is talking a lot about this event and even has a contest for a free trip to PDC for the best blog post begging to go.  Check it out.