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I use an email address that ends in .io and the amount of people that still ask me ".io? are you sure that's correct?" never ceases to amaze me.
by duiker101 6y ago
I use an email address that ends in .io and the amount of people that still ask me ".io? are you sure that's correct?" never ceases to amaze me.
- gadders 6y agoMine ends in .by as my surname does as well and people still say "Is that it?" EG if my surname was "Gummersby" my email domain is "Gummers.by"
- lorenzhs 6y agoIf your surname contains an "a", say Gaddersby, you could also do "g@dders.by" to confuse people even more
- codethief 6y agoTry spelling that, though. :)
- maratc 6y agoI have purchased some domains for myself and my friends based on that rule, like rubinste.in, fedorovi.ch, or oba.ma (not real names). They thought it's cute but didn't hold them for long. A friend with a last name that ends in ..skova wasn't so lucky as Vatican doesn't sell domain names.
- tadzik_ 6y agoHell, booking.com will even tell you that "your address looks incorrect" (sometimes, I got it once out of two bookings made on a single day), if you dare to use your own domain .com. They used to nag me about "ohh, are you sure it's not tadzik_@gmail.com"? And I'm not sure what's worse.
- tyingq 6y agoIt does work well. I used a customized version of https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck on an ecomm website and the amount of bounces due to typos went way down. It is important to tune it a bit based on what you see after installing it to reduce the amount of bad suggestions.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoYou got nothing on my firstname@lastname.technology email. Can't register at half the sites, and if you can register sometimes you can't log in. Banana Republic, in particular, lets me log in through one login flow, but not the one that's integrated into the checkout process.
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- Ductapemaster 6y agoAh! What a coincidence — I registered my Banana Republic account with a gmail "+" email (eg, my_email+bananarepublic@gmail.com) as is my standard practice with retail accounts, and I have the same login issues. It's quite odd, but I'm glad it's not just me!
- davchana 6y agoWallethub let me register email+wh@gmail.com but did not allow + sign in login. Cant signup again with email@gmail.com Had to ask support to fix that.
- hc-taway 6y agoIf they’re just warning but letting you proceed, that’s fine. They do that because they see looooots of people screwing up their own email addresses in a few common ways. Run any email signup with a general audience and any kind of volume and you’ll end up doing the same, to reduce the load on support.
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoSame using me@domain.cricket or similar. "Do you mean me@domain.com?"
- samanator 6y agoצדיק גמור אתה!
- mywacaday 6y agoTry using a .Irish domain
- capableweb 6y agoYeah. Try using wildcard email accounts together with a uncommon TLD, and people ask me if I work at their place all the time. Last time I booked a car at Hertz: > Me: My email is hertz@capableweb.work > Agent: Woah, you work here at Hertz? That's so cool > Me: sure, can you remind me of the employee discount again? So many email validations fail with a uncommon gTLD that I started switching everything to a .com domain instead. Sometimes I even get rejected when my email address contains the company name... "Sorry, your email seems invalid" is all I get, but changing one letter of the company name makes it pass the validation...
- athenot 6y agoSame experience, though I never tried to get a discount out of it.
- capableweb 6y agoIn that case she tried to apply the discount via my email or something like that, but she said it failed. I blamed on it that I was a new employee and I'm a rush, so nevermind, let's proceed normally. I'm not sure I would actually accept it if it went through, but I'm always curious to see if it works sometime.
- wcfields 6y agoFrom doing agency/marketing work for numerous large corps, I can tell you that many have a straight up block on corpname on any email name or domain to prevent phishing.
- hamburglar 6y agoYes, I recently got a new chromecast, which now requires a google account to set up via the google home app. I knew I was never going to use this single-purpose account for anything real so I decided to make the name very descriptive and tried to put “googlehome” in the identifier but google would not let me get away with the string “google” anywhere in it. Ended up with “GewgleHome.”
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- Semaphor 6y agoMy domain ends in .me which according to Aliexpress is not real. So instead of me having to manually unsubscribe, they got sent to the huge spam box that is gmail.
- ymolodtsov 6y agoA ton of services kindly ask me if my personal domain on .me TLD is correct one, but at least they don't block me from using it.
- davchana 6y agoMy domain ending in .in is not supported by Discover Bank because it can be used only "in" India.
- alasdair_ 6y agoWhich reminds me, I used to use me@myname.com but gmail’s UI gets weird when viewing emails from me as it uses “me” to indicate the owner of the gmail account.
- mihaaly 6y agook, ok, but is that really correct?! ;)
- thesuitonym 6y agoI use hello@firstmiddlelast.com I also have firstmiddlelast@gmail.com, and about half the time I tell someone my email address, the send it to the gmail one.
- davchana 6y agoFor me, they send emails at mydomain.com@gmail.com
- thesuitonym 6y agoAh jeez, maybe they do that to me, too, and I just don't know it?
- davchana 6y agoI know because I registered an actual mydomain.com@gmail.com name too.
- joshstrange 6y agoI use first@firstlast.com and wasn't able to get the firstlast@gmail.com so I guess I'm just hoping I'm getting all my email. I will say that having my name be my email makes life /so much/ easier. Especially over the phone, "Yes, my email is first@firstlast.com, just like the name I just told you and/or is already on your screen when you pulled up my account".
- jguimont 6y agoSometimes it is better not to be too clever. I built a CRM like app for the construction industry and used "inc.construction" and "inc.services" as the app domain. So customer would have <business-name>.inc.construction I thought it was clever, but people do not understand them. Everything is .com in their mind.
- MrsPeaches 6y agoJust FYI, .io is the TLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory, which has a less than savoury history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
- swilliamsio 6y agoPlease don't tell me there exists genuine attempts to "cancel" the .io domain.
- belval 6y agoOwning a .io domain is taking part directly in the enslaving and poisoning of the island's native /s
- mynameisvlad 6y agoNot everything has to be “cancelled” but if you are buying a domain, you should probably inform yourselves of what that TLD represents since people you’re communicating with might and might not look too favorably on its use.
- imwillofficial 6y agoYeah, .io represents “Input/Output” as much as .net represents “Network” Domains often have little connection to their intended meaning.
- mynameisvlad 6y agoLet's say you're running a startup and decided to be hip and get an io domain. You reach out to a potential major client who happens to be of Chagossian descent. They probably wouldn't care for your interpretation of the domain, they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland. So, yes, you should be well aware of what the io domain represents and who you're supporting when buying one. Because it might bite you in the ass down the line and could have easily been avoided by just getting a different one without a storied past. No "cancelling" going on, but just like a lot of other things, it's a risk that should be taken into account.
- Jonovono 6y agoMine ends in .sexy, the looks I get are even better than when I used my .io one ;p and then if they follow up for my phone number it gets even better when I tell them as it ends in 6969.
- criddell 6y agoMy domain has a hyphen in it and I find places that reject it all the time.
- hbosch 6y agoI have a very short .co - gets 'em every time.
- vmception 6y agoIts 2021 and I am just finding people that treat .co emails as normal and don't mentally overwrite that as .com and create a typo For services that actually require correspondence, I register the cool fun tld and a seperate .com for email This also lets mailing lists het marked as spam without harming the deliverability of the other
- mikey_p 6y agoI have a simple email address: firstname @ (nickname for firstname) + (last initial) .net And it's amazing how hard it is to explain this to people over the phone or in store for email receipts, etc. I'm shocked how few folks seems to be vaguely aware that .net as TLD exists even though it's one of the original TLDs from when they were first created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoYes, I just posted something similar. My domain is initial + surname, and the most common response I get when giving my email is that the person hasn't heard of "that one" before. To make matters worse, I chose a slightly uncommon tld.
- bionade24 6y agoBesides lots of other adresses i have forname @ forname-surname .de as an adress easy to understand. I totally understand your problems, I have this even with people who already have forename and surname on their screens, it's ridiculous.
- ziml77 6y agoI have 2 email addresses because of that. I thought it would be good to have my and address at my own domain but if I could go back in time I would tell myself to just stick with the gmail address. For anything where I can type in my email address, it's fine. But if someone asks for it verbally, I just give them the gmail address because firstnamelastname@gmail.com requires no extra clarification.
- dkdbejwi383 6y agoMine is my name, like john@jsmith.com. The number of people who exclaim "I've never heard that one before!" surprises me. Obviously other people don't use it, because it's my name.
- walrus01 6y agoMy spouse, who does not work in an IT/software related field, has an email address that is firstname@lastname.com and quite a large number of people refuse to believe that such a thing is possible. There has been more than one instance where some person treated them as if they were so clueless that they didn't know how to properly format an email address.