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I have run into this issue too. My Gmail account was challenging to say over the phone/in person and I wanted a platform agnostic email address so I grabbed fir
by batiudrami 5y ago
I have run into this issue too. My Gmail account was challenging to say over the phone/in person and I wanted a platform agnostic email address so I grabbed firstlast.co but it often takes some reassurance that yes, that is my real email address.
- walrus01 5y agopart of your problem might be with the .co , since outside of tech industry circles or people who are actually Colombian, it's rare and weird. I bet you'd halve the problem or more if it was a .net or similar.
- batiudrami 5y ago.co is actually fine usually as people in Australia are familiar with .co.uk and .co.nz (even though the “co” means different things in those contexts) I share a name with a US Governor which is great for keeping my teenage internet activity buried in search results but made it tricky to find a suitable domain name.
- matt_heimer 5y agoI own osdev.(com|net|org) and I've experimented with using different email addresses over many years. The .net and .org TLDs still cause a lot of confusion. I'd guess that .edu is questioned the least after .com. But even .com addresses from non-common domains cause people to question them. wildrabbitmonkey1971z@gmail.com - no problem. matt@osdev.com - I'm sorry, can you repeat that for the forth time? I've experimented with other domains using common English words and its no better. I still like to use a personal domain to register with most sites but if I have to give someone an email address over the phone its going to be a common email hosting service that forwards to my real email.