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Just to put this out there, you can also buy your domain names from google, often for 12 dollars a year, and you get your email (yourname@yourdomainname.com) in the gmail engine instead of some outdated squirrelmail and such.
As far as hosting goes, when I was looking around it seems siteground is a very good reliable one. Dreamhost is another one that pops up, but there are tons. I would avoid hostgator, bluehost, and godaddy.