I was traveling from LAX to IAD yesterday on a flight that arrived in at 12:25 AM. As we were making our approach, the pilot says, "we will be coming in on runway 19 here at Dulles - it is a beautiful night and we would be vectoring in from the south, going right over the Ashburn Icehouse, the temporary practice home for your Washington Capitals. Let’s go Caps." How cool was that?

Over the last 15 years, email has become one of the most popular online activities.  While it is functional, it has not provided the user with truly personal and meaningful identities the way personal email domains can. So, I am really excited that AOL will be the first to offer FREE customized email addresses. This new service lets any Internet user create their own Internet identity using a .COM or .NET domain. As long as it’s available, AOL will register it for you for FREE.

What makes the email domains so cool is that you can connect up to 100 other identities on a single domain, which makes it perfect for extended families, social organizations, teams and small businesses. Having the ability to choose something that is reflective of the many facets of ones life only adds to the sense of community on the Internet.

In the near future, AOL will also offer the user the ability to link domain Web sites to AIM Pages.

For more detail on the full range of free AOL offerings and Personal Email Domains - check it out.