Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com), an internet portal and web hosting provider, announced yesterday a new domain product for $9.95/year, which is designed to ma...

Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com), an internet portal and web hosting provider, announced yesterday a new domain product for $9.95/year, which is designed to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to establish their online presence. Additionally, Yahoo! has enhanced its current e-mail and web hosting products with bandwidth, storage and customer support.

According to Yahoo, in addition to a domain name the new domain based products will also offer customers toll-free, 24-hour phone support, control panel, DNS management and a starter web page which is a professionally-designed web page to serve as a placeholder or stand-in until a site is published.

Starting at $11.95 per month, Yahoo! has enhanced it's web hosting which includes a domain name and e-mail, and will now provide 39 times more disk space, 5 times more bandwidth, enhanced e-mail features including additional e-mail addresses and 2 GB of storage per account.

Yahoo! is also launching a new domain-based e-mail product, Yahoo! Custom Mailbox, as a solution for individuals who want a personalized e-mail address. For $34.95/year, customers receive a domain name and e-mail address.

"Yahoo! is addressing this rapidly growing marketplace with a superior product offering from a brand they can trust," said Rich Riley, vice president and general manager, Yahoo!. "We continue to innovate and deliver enhanced domain, e-mail and web hosting products at competitive prices to make it easy for consumers and small businesses to stake their claim on the Internet."