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Hell, even using an email address that's not a popular webmail host tends to throw people off. Mine is me@justinlardinois.com; I can't tell you how many times I

Hell, even using an email address that's not a popular webmail host tends to throw people off. Mine is me@justinlardinois.com; I can't tell you how many times I've confused call center operators with it. I even had one think I meant justinlardinois@me.com.

WatchDog 10y ago
Try using justin@justinlardinois.com It might be a bit redundant, but it's the pattern I use and I don't ever really have any problems, other than incredulous looks or comments about owning a domain name.
freehunter 10y ago
I use Outlook.com for a lot and it confuses people. I say the first part and they immediately start typing @gmail.com. I even had a guy at my mechanic's shop tell me Outlook was the program I used to check my email, but Gmail was the actual address.
Normal_gaussian 10y ago
I run with the pattern 'iam@<my domain>' This works well for everything except my personal domain. My first name is Eoin, pronounced like Ian. Several people have tried to correct the words I just explicitly spelled out to them. I've resorted to having people spell that one back.
- notatoad 10y ago
  Using iam@domain when your name sounds like Ian seems like it's just asking for confusion.
  - Normal_gaussian 10y ago
    Absolutely. It was a naming scheme I adopted on other domains first and, being used to ian spelled my way, didn't notice as quickly as I should have. It's relatively low traffic and has a catch all however, so more just trivia at this point.
- richardw 10y ago
  I can understand you wanting it spelled correctly but maybe add ian@ as an alias? For those times where mistakes seem likely.
  - Normal_gaussian 10y ago
    Yeah I have a catch all in, hence why I didn't change the address.
loeber 10y ago
To add to the list of suggestions, the pattern I use is contact@<myname>.com. I've never received any questions with that address, though I don't use it particularly often.
dhruvkar 10y ago
I use firstinitiallastinitial@<mynamedomain>.com. It's not as redundant as firstname@<mynamedomain>.com. and still seems like a personal email address as opposed to "me/iam/contact".

WatchDog 10y ago

Try using justin@justinlardinois.com It might be a bit redundant, but it's the pattern I use and I don't ever really have any problems, other than incredulous looks or comments about owning a domain name.

freehunter 10y ago

I use Outlook.com for a lot and it confuses people. I say the first part and they immediately start typing @gmail.com. I even had a guy at my mechanic's shop tell me Outlook was the program I used to check my email, but Gmail was the actual address.

Normal_gaussian 10y ago

I run with the pattern 'iam@<my domain>' This works well for everything except my personal domain. My first name is Eoin, pronounced like Ian. Several people have tried to correct the words I just explicitly spelled out to them. I've resorted to having people spell that one back.

notatoad 10y ago
Using iam@domain when your name sounds like Ian seems like it's just asking for confusion.
- Normal_gaussian 10y ago
  Absolutely. It was a naming scheme I adopted on other domains first and, being used to ian spelled my way, didn't notice as quickly as I should have. It's relatively low traffic and has a catch all however, so more just trivia at this point.
richardw 10y ago
I can understand you wanting it spelled correctly but maybe add ian@ as an alias? For those times where mistakes seem likely.
- Normal_gaussian 10y ago
  Yeah I have a catch all in, hence why I didn't change the address.

loeber 10y ago

To add to the list of suggestions, the pattern I use is contact@<myname>.com. I've never received any questions with that address, though I don't use it particularly often.

dhruvkar 10y ago

I use firstinitiallastinitial@<mynamedomain>.com. It's not as redundant as firstname@<mynamedomain>.com. and still seems like a personal email address as opposed to "me/iam/contact".