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I agree that using per-company email address to sign up is not a good idea but I love my catch-all email address. When I'm testing my software (professional or

I agree that using per-company email address to sign up is not a good idea but I love my catch-all email address. When I'm testing my software (professional or personal) I can "create" emails on the fly for new user accounts. Yes, with Gmail, you can do the base+anything@gmail.com trick but with my setup I never need to rely on that (or worry someone might block it), I just use anything@mydomain.com and I'm good to go. Same for my LLC, I have a catchall so I can setup things like accounts@mydomain.com and get all those emails to my main josh@mydomain.com email address and then in the future if I need to turn that into a group or it's own email address it's super easy and forward compatible. Just like support@mydomain.com, right now I'm the only one that handles that but I can hand that off in the future if I need to without any issues at all. Tangentially related: getting your own name as your domain name is really nice in more ways than you might think. Giving my email over the phone is a cake walk, I've normally just given them my name, then I just say "josh at joshstrange dot com" and I never have to worry about spelling or them hearing me perfectly since it's just a combination of the info I just gave them (my name). I get comments about it from time to time but buying that domain in high school was the best decision I ever made when it comes to tech/email. It's stayed the same for well over a decade and I never had to give out an embarrassing email or worry about "what email did I use to sign up for that account?".

alias_neo 4y ago
Lucky you mister Josh Strange. If however, like myself, you have a name like Mr Fair lyPopularNameNoOneInBritainCanSpellCorrectly IncomprehensibleItalianOrSpanishOrSomethingEuropeanFamilyNameNoBritHearingItWillEverAssumeStartsWithTheLetterItActuallyDoes, it's the epitome of tedium every time you have to get someone on the phone or in person to spell your name correctly. My wife fucking hates it that she switched from her easy, unmistakable English family name to my shit show of a Phonetic spelling exercise. I guarantee I'd never receive a single spam message because nobody is EVER spelling my FirstnameLastname.com correctly, Mr MyNameExistsInAutocorrect Strange. Jokes aside, seriously, my family name starts with "El" and the second you start saying it you see people write "L" and pause.
- joshstrange 4y ago
  Totally fair criticism of my statement and I apologize for not taking into account names that are harder to spell or hear correctly. I am very thankful that I don’t have those issues but yes, my advice doesn’t hold up in those situations.
  - alias_neo 4y ago
    No worries, I was a light hearted rebuttal! I always found the firstname@lastname.com to confuse people far more than the name itself. I often get questions like "is that at gmail.com or hotmail.com or...?"

alias_neo 4y ago

Lucky you mister Josh Strange. If however, like myself, you have a name like Mr Fair lyPopularNameNoOneInBritainCanSpellCorrectly IncomprehensibleItalianOrSpanishOrSomethingEuropeanFamilyNameNoBritHearingItWillEverAssumeStartsWithTheLetterItActuallyDoes, it's the epitome of tedium every time you have to get someone on the phone or in person to spell your name correctly. My wife fucking hates it that she switched from her easy, unmistakable English family name to my shit show of a Phonetic spelling exercise. I guarantee I'd never receive a single spam message because nobody is EVER spelling my FirstnameLastname.com correctly, Mr MyNameExistsInAutocorrect Strange. Jokes aside, seriously, my family name starts with "El" and the second you start saying it you see people write "L" and pause.

joshstrange 4y ago
Totally fair criticism of my statement and I apologize for not taking into account names that are harder to spell or hear correctly. I am very thankful that I don’t have those issues but yes, my advice doesn’t hold up in those situations.
- alias_neo 4y ago
  No worries, I was a light hearted rebuttal! I always found the firstname@lastname.com to confuse people far more than the name itself. I often get questions like "is that at gmail.com or hotmail.com or...?"