Customized email address is a must have requirement for business. Either you have small business or a big enterprise having customized email address best suits for both. You may be thinking what is customized or personalized email address?
What is Customized Email Address?
When you create email address with free email services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook your email address contains email providers name as a part of your email address. For eg if you have email account at Gmail then your email address would be like yourname@gmail.com. Instead of email service providers name in Customized email address you are free to get any name or your domain name after @ sign.
There are many email providers who offers creating customized email address for your domain. Some of them are free and some are paid. Out of so many options it is hard to choose which one is good for you. Here is top customized email providers list that can help you choosing best option for you.
Google Apps
Google Apps is most common email provider that business people are using these days as you gets same interface as your regular Gmail account but with added organizational benefits such as Google drive, calendars, docs etc. Some years before Google Apps used to provide free custom address up to 10 persons but in 2012 it stopped its free Edition for new customers. Now Google Apps provides you customized email address for $5 monthly per person having 30 GB storage or $10 monthly per user having unlimited storage size.
Although Google Apps force you to pay for your customized email address even then there is way to get it free as per Mailgun.
Zaho Mail
For people who want free customized email address, Zaho mail is a good option for them. Free plan of Zaho mail comes with 10 users each have 5 Gb per user for mailbox storage and 1 Gb per user for docs storage. In their free version you can register up to 1 custom domain for your email address. Other than free version the lowest plan of it is $2.5 per user per month with 10 Gb mail storage and 1 Gb docs storage and additional features. Zaho mail is Email Hosting Bundled with Document Storage, Online Office & Website Builder. One good thing is that it is ads free even in their free version. You will never see any ads on their web interface. Zaho mail provides all essential features necessary for business email such as IMAP and POP access. It also offers labels to organize email into folders.
Rackspace
Rackspace is a good option for Business users. Rackspace offers 14 days trail free with no long term contracts and you can cancel it anytime with one click. It has $2 per mailbox per month plan and it has a very nice feature Microsoft Exchange that cost $10 per mailbox per month which provides free sync for iPhone, Android, Windows phone. You can access your mail from Outlook, your mobile, or webmail.
Rackspace Email is a business-class, POP/IMAP service that works with Outlook. It also includes a Webmail Application Suite featuring shared Calendars, a Global Address List and (optional) Mobile Sync capabilities.
It offers multiple layers of premium spam and virus protection, and keeps ads out of your hosted email.
FastMail
FastMail offers 30 days trial period with the limit on how many messages you can send. The lowest plan of FastMail is $10 per year with 250 MB email storage with email syncing only. It does not provide email for custom domain. But if you want custom domain it has $40 a year plan with 15 GB email storage and priority support. It is also ad free. In 2010 the Fastmail was acquired by Opera Software. On September 26, 2013, FastMail announced that it had split from Opera and became a privately held independent company.
Hushmail
Hushmail is Secure email with built-in encryption, no advertising, and unlimited email aliases. Its standard plan cost $5.24 per month per user plus a one-time $9.99 setup fee with 10 GB space. It offers free personal account with 25 MB storage but in this you cannot use your domain name. Hushmail don’t show any third party advertisements. You can access your mail on web interface, outlook or smartphone.
