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The second letter in my first name is an 'a', the last 3 letters of my last name are 'ski'. When the .ski domain finally became available for general use, I jum

by kgwxd 5y ago

The second letter in my first name is an 'a', the last 3 letters of my last name are 'ski'. When the .ski domain finally became available for general use, I jumped to register [last 3 of first name][first 7 of last name].ski so I could have [1st]@(for the 'a')[middle part].ski. It looked cool as hell to me but confusing as hell to anyone else and it was impossible to verbally communicate.

jareklupinski 5y ago
same, it's better than a business card, especially among tech circles "just email me at 'my name at my last name but dot ski'" super memorable and shows you know your way around the stack :)
- igetspam 5y ago
  I have a gmail account that I grabbed when I worked at Google that reads very fake. It might as well be spam@ (it's not). Geeks love it. Normal people think I'm lying. (Geeks think I'm lying too but I can prove it, so they quickly more to the loving it phase.) I often get replies from support teams quickly because they want to see if it's fake.
  - cvwright 5y ago
    Let me guess: root?
    - walrus01 5y ago
      postmaster? admin?
  - jareklupinski 5y ago
    email@gmail?
aluminum96 5y ago
Do you have issues with spam filters blocking your emails? I've heard that any non `.com` email is a mess from a deliverability perspective.
- technion 5y ago
  I think the biggest issue is signing up to websites. I support a .org.au domain and get occasional complaints people can't use online services that declare it to not be a valid tld.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 5y ago
  I use @pm.me (Protonmail’s domain) and I’ve had a couple of instances where emails I send bounce or email systems of certain corps won’t deliver to me. It’s pretty rare but it happens maybe once a year or so. Notably the web server of the government of the city I live in (Austin, TX) won’t accept emails from that domain so I have to use my Gmail to communicate with them.
deepspace 5y ago
My first name ends in 'in'. So, I registered <2-(n-2) letters of first name>.in, giving me an email address of the form a@bcdef.in. If you remove the '@' and the '.', you just get my first name. I thought I was being clever at the time, but nobody gets it. Sigh.
- TMWNN 5y ago
  Did you have delivery issues to Western email addresses, given the .in origin of your mail?
  - thfuran 5y ago
    I also use a .in in the US and the only delivery issues I have is when trying to give someone my email address over the phone. That said, I probably receive >>100x as many emails as I send so I'm not sure I can really say I've tested sending emails particularly thoroughly.
  - davchana 5y ago
    Not OP, but Discover bank Zelle signup refused to believe that an email can end in .in. It accepted happily an email ending in .us.
  - deepspace 5y ago
    I have not observed any delivery issues yet, but I seldom use the .in address.
- e-clinton 5y ago
  I did something similar but used the @ as an A in my name
- bestouff 5y ago
  I have my own one: *.tel (my name is *tel). My email is *@*.tel; lots of people get it. Life is good.
- im_dario 5y ago
  I have my own with an 'hn' domain, with the @ replacing the 'a' in my first name. Usually non-technical people gets it and they find it amusing.
saghm 5y ago
For a brief amount of time, I did a similar thing and hosted my personal website on the domain that spelled my full name using the .si TLD after finding a registrar that let me buy one (turns out that `.si` is the country prefix for Slovenia, and I guess they let people from outside the country buy their domains). It was a bit more expensive than a .com domain, but still reasonable (I think in the $20-25 range), but I didn't end up renewing it after even many of my classmates in the computer science program at my college seemed to be confused by it.
mro_name 5y ago
I had exactly the same experience with a .name domain two decades ago. You'll explain every single time you mention it. And I thought short domains are cool and abbreviated the name to 3 letters. Today I only communicate the full <first>@<last>.name. I learned a lot about slooowly migrating names along the way.

by kgwxd 5y ago

jareklupinski 5y ago

same, it's better than a business card, especially among tech circles "just email me at 'my name at my last name but dot ski'" super memorable and shows you know your way around the stack :)

igetspam 5y ago
I have a gmail account that I grabbed when I worked at Google that reads very fake. It might as well be spam@ (it's not). Geeks love it. Normal people think I'm lying. (Geeks think I'm lying too but I can prove it, so they quickly more to the loving it phase.) I often get replies from support teams quickly because they want to see if it's fake.
- cvwright 5y ago
  Let me guess: root?
  - walrus01 5y ago
    postmaster? admin?
- jareklupinski 5y ago
  email@gmail?

aluminum96 5y ago

Do you have issues with spam filters blocking your emails? I've heard that any non `.com` email is a mess from a deliverability perspective.

technion 5y ago
I think the biggest issue is signing up to websites. I support a .org.au domain and get occasional complaints people can't use online services that declare it to not be a valid tld.
SOLAR_FIELDS 5y ago
I use @pm.me (Protonmail’s domain) and I’ve had a couple of instances where emails I send bounce or email systems of certain corps won’t deliver to me. It’s pretty rare but it happens maybe once a year or so. Notably the web server of the government of the city I live in (Austin, TX) won’t accept emails from that domain so I have to use my Gmail to communicate with them.

deepspace 5y ago

My first name ends in 'in'. So, I registered <2-(n-2) letters of first name>.in, giving me an email address of the form a@bcdef.in. If you remove the '@' and the '.', you just get my first name. I thought I was being clever at the time, but nobody gets it. Sigh.

TMWNN 5y ago
Did you have delivery issues to Western email addresses, given the .in origin of your mail?
- thfuran 5y ago
  I also use a .in in the US and the only delivery issues I have is when trying to give someone my email address over the phone. That said, I probably receive >>100x as many emails as I send so I'm not sure I can really say I've tested sending emails particularly thoroughly.
- davchana 5y ago
  Not OP, but Discover bank Zelle signup refused to believe that an email can end in .in. It accepted happily an email ending in .us.
- deepspace 5y ago
  I have not observed any delivery issues yet, but I seldom use the .in address.
e-clinton 5y ago
I did something similar but used the @ as an A in my name
bestouff 5y ago
I have my own one: *.tel (my name is *tel). My email is *@*.tel; lots of people get it. Life is good.
im_dario 5y ago
I have my own with an 'hn' domain, with the @ replacing the 'a' in my first name. Usually non-technical people gets it and they find it amusing.

saghm 5y ago

For a brief amount of time, I did a similar thing and hosted my personal website on the domain that spelled my full name using the .si TLD after finding a registrar that let me buy one (turns out that `.si` is the country prefix for Slovenia, and I guess they let people from outside the country buy their domains). It was a bit more expensive than a .com domain, but still reasonable (I think in the $20-25 range), but I didn't end up renewing it after even many of my classmates in the computer science program at my college seemed to be confused by it.

mro_name 5y ago

I had exactly the same experience with a .name domain two decades ago. You'll explain every single time you mention it. And I thought short domains are cool and abbreviated the name to 3 letters. Today I only communicate the full <first>@<last>.name. I learned a lot about slooowly migrating names along the way.