Email addresses - the pros / cons of verizon.net vs. yourdomain.com

My temple, for years, has been using ___@verizon.net addresses (along the lines of tbsdirector@verizon.net, etc..) as free mailboxes from our DSL account.

At some point since then, we got a domain of our temple's name.

Now some of us are trying to get others to see the benefits of moving to director@ourdomain.com and give up the verizon addresses (and our move away from DSL is pushing this point more - do we stay on DSL just to keep those verizon addresses, etc.).

Anyone know of a well written doc / article from well known magazine / publication that we can refer them to that shows pros / cons (admittedly, there are cons to changing to ourdomain.com) for staying or changing?


some things that come to mind, but maybe I am missing some / a published piece would carry more weight:

Move to ourdomain.com

pros: not tied to a specific ISP / hosting company, more distinctive, make up whatever mailbox names we want - none are taken, more freedom on # of mailboxes and size and forwarding

cons: may have to pay for service (we are getting web hosting for free and may get mailboxes for free), have to tell people of the new addresses, missed emails from people that didn't get change notice / forgot, verizon is more reliable (that's the don't change group's argument - I don't agree).



thanks!