Instead of that $10 fast-food lunch you had yesterday you could have started your very own website with its own email. Buying a domain is probably one of the most lucrative things you can do right now. Names in the top-level domain (TLD) of ".com" are already fairly well picked over. Odds are if you can think of a noun or verb, it's already taken. Now (or more correctly, yesterday) is the time to buy a domain name. The process isn't hard, but there are some steps that can seem daunting to someone who's never done it before. I'm going to cover the process that I went through of buying a domain, getting content on it and setting up email for it all for around $10.
Part 1: Finding and Purchasing a Domain