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Ask HN: Professional email address
I've been using my University e-mail address for everything for years now, but with graduation nearing, I'd like to start transitioning to a more long-term professional address. Unfortunately, a quick perusal of gmail shows that every permutation of my name, initials, etc. are taken.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get a good professional email address in a world where nearly everything on gmail is taken? Should I try some other email service (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.?) Are there clever but still professional combinations I haven't thought of?
- patio11 16y agoI would create a web presence (starting with a resume, portfolio, blog, whatever) and be ben@ or ben.morris@ that domain, with the actual mail provided by Google Apps.
- jamesbritt 16y agoThis is amazingly simple to do, and you get nice spam filtering to boot. The one tricky part seems to be finding the option to get the free version. I tried using the pro version, and did not see any real benefits, but perhaps it's worth it for large companies.
- sp4rki 16y agoProfessional almost always equals having your own domain. There is pretty much no way around that this days. Unless your already famous.
- brk 16y agoI don't think that most people truly consider gmail to be a 'professional' email address in a sense that it's any better than a university account. As others have said, get your own domain name. It's cheap and guarantees you full control of accounts, plus an easy way to setup demo playgrounds for hacks/apps you may decide to play around with.