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I wonder if domain email can look pretentious or confusing to non technical people. I own a few domains, including <firstname><lastname>.com and <initial><lastn
by jsmith99 6y ago
I wonder if domain email can look pretentious or confusing to non technical people. I own a few domains, including <firstname><lastname>.com and <initial><lastname>.com but I don't work in IT (I'm an accountant), and don't have a business, blog or website. I bought the domains to keep them from bulk squatters.
I set up email with fastmail but I don't use it much. I assume people will look on them as some sort of vanity address.
I probably should migrate my most important logins to my domain email, though.
- lonelappde 6y ago> pretentious No. > or confusing Occasionally, with customer service phone reps. It's a good filter to identify people who are too low IQ to trust in general, so it's a great signal
- benhurmarcel 6y agoI can relate. I don't work in IT, and I've been using <firstname><lastname>.com as my main email for years. But in practice I have another email address that I can give around when I feel that using my own domain would look pretentious. I've pondered buying a domain that's not my name just to make it look like it's a normal email service, so it wouldn't look pretentious. But now it seems to me that a better solution would be to migrate all to Fastmail or Mailbox.org and have an alias ready for that use.
- jorgesborges 6y agoI work in a non-technical field and ask around about this. It definitely looks gaudy and pretentious to some people. You’re not immune to the occasional eyeroll. It concerned me enough to remove it from my resume.
- remir 6y agoDon't sweat it. Some people will find anything pretentious. I was eating a Shawarma some time ago and a colleague asked me what I was eating. I answered "Shawarma" and this was enough for him to think I was some kind of elitist or whatnot. Bonkers, really.