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reminds me a bit of the family member who owns firstname@lastname.com and can't get random non technical people to believe that their email address domain reall

reminds me a bit of the family member who owns firstname@lastname.com and can't get random non technical people to believe that their email address domain really is lastname.com "but don't you mean at gmail.co..." no

mmastrac 4y ago
I've been using firstname@lastname.com for ages and this doesn't happen to me. Usually it's "huh that's neat", but I also have a very unique last name
- Macha 4y ago
  Mine is first@fullname.com. Most just accept it (all when I visit California, maybe that's your experience?), but I do get queried about it from time to time in my home country
- Kab1r 4y ago
  I have had the same experience with first@last.me. My last name is also pretty unique.
omnibrain 4y ago
I used mail@firstname.lastname.name and sometimes even like the op "service"@firstname.lastname.name for some time. This lead into all kinds of trouble, social and technical. Social as in people did not understand why I "owned" "service"@..., why I did not have something like firstname.lastname@t-online.de/web.de/gmx.de/googlemail.de, that a third level domain is even possible, or they did not recognize .name. Technical trouble was almost the same: Systems did not recognise the new at the time .name or Systems had trouble with third level domains. Somstimes I could sign up, but something in the backend broke and I never received mails.
- deleted 4y ago
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gowld 4y ago
There's a 199X NYTimes article about how prestigious lastname.com is. Maybe someone can find it in the archives
- techsolomon 4y ago
  https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/technology/the-great-domain-name-hunt.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/technology/the-great-doma... & https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/022197domain.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we...

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reminds me a bit of the family member who owns firstname@lastname.com and can't get random non technical people to believe that their email address domain reall

by walrus01 4y ago

mmastrac 4y ago
I've been using firstname@lastname.com for ages and this doesn't happen to me. Usually it's "huh that's neat", but I also have a very unique last name
- Macha 4y ago
  Mine is first@fullname.com. Most just accept it (all when I visit California, maybe that's your experience?), but I do get queried about it from time to time in my home country
- Kab1r 4y ago
  I have had the same experience with first@last.me. My last name is also pretty unique.
omnibrain 4y ago
I used mail@firstname.lastname.name and sometimes even like the op "service"@firstname.lastname.name for some time. This lead into all kinds of trouble, social and technical. Social as in people did not understand why I "owned" "service"@..., why I did not have something like firstname.lastname@t-online.de/web.de/gmx.de/googlemail.de, that a third level domain is even possible, or they did not recognize .name. Technical trouble was almost the same: Systems did not recognise the new at the time .name or Systems had trouble with third level domains. Somstimes I could sign up, but something in the backend broke and I never received mails.
- deleted 4y ago
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gowld 4y ago
There's a 199X NYTimes article about how prestigious lastname.com is. Maybe someone can find it in the archives
- techsolomon 4y ago
  https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/technology/the-great-domain-name-hunt.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/technology/the-great-doma... & https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/022197domain.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/we...