Use of own domain name with Office 365 Home/Premium

yes, please take your own advice. That should remove you from this thread. You bring nothing related to the core issue of this topic. When people ask how to fix a flat tire you tell them to take the bus, your reply is never helpfull it's more like trolling.

As for the issue at hand MS is actually working on a solution and people can sign up to try it, unfortunatly for me I seem to be long down on the waiting list as my outlook.com account still isn't updated to the 365 backend. Frustrating because it seems like free users get it before paying users.

I had the same problem, but worse yet I ended up paying for both O365 Home and O365 Business., I have not been able to get a refund for the Home subscription which was never used.

But that's not all! Since the same email address was used for both I get Live logon issues with the account--when I logon to OneDrive, it asks me which account, but cannot authenticate no matter which I choose. I cannot join a Skype for Business meeting outside of my office because Live tries to connect to the decommissioned account. Those are just a few of the issues.

When you add syncing to the cloud the problems increase exponentially.  When they finally decommissioned the first account my local computer logons broke because they were synced to the cloud which was tied to THE HOME ACCOUNT. It just goes on and on.

I am still trying to get out of this mess, but no way I am going to sign on again. I will give up my domain name first.

I had a similar problem. My solution was Zoho mail. They offer a product very similiar to Gmail with custom domains, and is free for 25 users.

I had a similar problem. My solution was Zoho mail. They offer a product very similiar to Gmail with custom domains, and is free for 25 users.

a review of free email hosting options:

http://email.about.com/od/freeemailreviews/tp/free\_email.htm

It actually might work. It actually looks almost too good to be true. Where is the catch? :)

You have successfully signed up for the Free plan for your domain. You can easily set your domain for email hosting, and add upto 25 email accounts in your organization setup. You can upgrade to any of our paid plans in case you want to add more user accounts.

edit: just tried syncing calendar, contacts and sending and receiving email. Worked as expected, like with any other exchange server.

Microsoft will give us custom domains. Finally!

Outlook Premium

Interesting but limited to five personal email addresess.  I actually want to to be able to create tens or even hundreds of email aliases, all on the same inbox.  I only need a few mailboxes as befits my family, but in this day of cyber attacks on companies holding our data, or companines sharing our data, I want to give each one of them an unique address that I can change or delete on a whim.  I've done this in the past when I hosted my domain on my home internet, but I really don't want to get bacj in to do that again.  

I'm looking for a reliable email provided (IMAP/POP3/Web + backups + well maintained security + SPF/DomainKeys) where I can host my own personal domain(s) and manage any number of email aliases.  Deleting an alias should prevent message delivery at the SMTP level and not be something that happens as a filtering step post delivery/acceptance of the message.

Reading this thread, it looks to me like Microsoft aren't even thinking about this or consider the market too small to bother with.