Can’t wait to get more details on this. I already have a domain name I use with google‘s g-suite but it is starting to make more sense financially to just subscribe to Apple One and use iCloud mail with my own domain.
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iCloud+ to Let iCloud Mail Users Personalize Their Email Domain Name
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Well, I don't have the domain address for myfirstname@lastname.com
Do I have to buy "lastname.com" that before I use that domain name for my email?
I mean, nobody has mylastname.com.
I just checked. Would I have to buy that domain before using this iCloud+ feature?
This is great. Now please make your Webmail a first class product. I use outlook.com for my personal email because I have to use Windows and iCloud webmail is just bad. Outlook webmail is 100x better.
Absolutely agree. I was mentioning the possibility of a fully-integrated service as this is what some people want. But for me, I definitely don't want to transfer the management of my DNS entries to Apple or their partner.
On your last point, I think it is technically possible to implement redirections for some addresses alongside an actual email server for others on the same domain. But as you say we need to want and see.
Yes thanks, this is what I was alluding to in a previous post.
But at least if I am not mistaken Outlook.com can collect emails from an external mail server, and send emails as an external email address. So in practice it can be fully utilised with an external address (even though it is not technically hosting it).
iCloud can't do that.
Yes, you will need to buy/register lastname.com. If, in fact, no one has registered that domain yet, i would jump on it. (and maybe lastname.family, etc.). You can go to any domain register and grab it today for less than $20 a year. I use Google Domains, but there are others (Godaddy, etc.)
Assuming Apple registers the domain on your behalf (the fee has to be included in the iCloud+ subscription), how would you host a web page on it? I'm guessing it's for people who want their own domain name but only want to send/receive emails.
Awesome, thank you! I (clearly) had limited understanding of how domain names work
I guess it would be fair to say this is just like G-Suite (or whatever Google used to call it).
Microsoft OneDrive free: 5GB
Dropbox free: 2GB
Xiaomi Cloud free: 5GB
Huawei mobile cloud free: 5GB
Asus Webstorage free: 5GB
Apple offers 50GB iCloud for just 99c a month (with all the new perks), seems reasonable even for me. Most people spend a lot more more than that for coffee.
You would need to "buy" (technically it's not buying but, you pay money and it's "yours" for a period of time - you have to keep paying to renew it) that domain yes.
It's possible Apple would introduce some form of registrar middle-man service where they will secure a domain on your behalf but I wouldn't bet on it.
Also, you're not limited to .com remember. For personal stuff like this (particularly like this, where you can easily share it with family members) the .family TLD is quite good, if you can get yours.
This is absolutely true. I think 50 GB at 99 cents a month is incredibly reasonable.
But there are people, like my wife and my parents, who look at this kind of cost and say "well, no, I am not paying for that." It's almost like they are offended. I just shake my head and made sure I have them on a family plan sharing storage I pay for.
I got Dropbox years ago when you could do things to increase your free storage, so I’m sitting with 12.88GB of free Dropbox storage, which works well for me.
I do wish Apple would have increased the storage in their paid tiers. I have the 200GB because it’s the lowest for family sharing, but it would have been nice to seen a bump, even if it only was a 50Gb increase.
Yep, this is the way to go, if you can.
My MIL is the same - runs out of space on device (enough photos to put a paparazzo to shame), complains the free hand-me-down device (i.e. mine or my wifes old iPhone) has run out of space, and then proceeds to just upload every picture she's taken - regardless of who or what it was, to Facebook, set to public.
Err, just because you had more space, doesn't mean a new user will. Dropbox gives new users free 2GB only.
As for demanding free 50GB, if 99c a month is too much for one yet one can purchase thousands of dollars of Apple iPhones and laptops, well, one has a different issue altogether.
You would still have to forward your email from your email service provider to the appleid account, unless apple are willing to open to allow "privatedomain.com" MX records to be resolved to theirs.
Sending as name@privatedomain.com from your icloud email account would be great, but I would guess it would just be more email aliases in iCloud rather than actual email service for domains.
Yeah, I also find it funny how people are unwilling to pay 99c a month, yet they didn't bat an eye spending more than that for a bottled water...
Been using custom domains for emails for years to help cut back spam and having unique email addresses for each service I sign up with. Nice that this is an option that may be cheaper than using some third party domain hosting servers. Will keep an eye on this. 
