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I used to have an email address with a three-letter username @eh.net, which was actually surprisingly annoying to use. If you ever gave the address to someone t

I used to have an email address with a three-letter username @eh.net, which was actually surprisingly annoying to use. If you ever gave the address to someone they'd be very confused at how short it is.

zfxfr 4y ago
From my experience if you give people any email address with a custom domain people will usually be confused and ask you to repeat even if it's very clear and easy to remember. Last time i gave my mail which is something like :myname@LLL.fr i was asked : are you sure ?
- cldellow 4y ago
  I had to deal with an accountant to get advice on how to file taxes after the sale of a private company. They needed information from a third party. I gave the accountant the third party's email address, firstname@lastname.co. The transaction was taking a while to get resolved. After repeated followups, the accountant finally told me that he was having a hard time getting a hold of the third party. Was I sure that their address was firstname@lastname.com? Like... what the heck. We're all corresponding over email. You could have literally clicked the email address in the email that I sent you. But instead, somehow you've mangled it and are confused that it doesn't work? That was instructive for me. .com TLDs only going forward!
  - mxuribe 4y ago
    I hear ya! I've had my own last name .CC for well over a decade...and i still get the occasional "Did you mean .COM?" ....so nowadays i premptively state my email is: xyz@whatever.CC (that's .CC and NOT .COM)....and people get it nowadays more than in the past, though its funny that its only my fellow Americans who are not used to TLDs which are not .com, .net, .org. ;-)
- AviationAtom 4y ago
  I usually get: "@gmail.com?" "No, no. Not everyone has to use Gmail!"
  - Cyberdog 4y ago
    My favorite is when someone is trying to ask you for your email address but asks it as "What's your Gmail?"
twbarr 4y ago
I never had problems with [initials]@[short university name].edu, but my current email address, of the form n@nnn.nn, causes all sorts of problems with filters. My newest favorite bug was Adobe's password rules which demanded that the part of my email address before the @ not appear in the password.

zfxfr 4y ago

From my experience if you give people any email address with a custom domain people will usually be confused and ask you to repeat even if it's very clear and easy to remember. Last time i gave my mail which is something like :myname@LLL.fr i was asked : are you sure ?

cldellow 4y ago
I had to deal with an accountant to get advice on how to file taxes after the sale of a private company. They needed information from a third party. I gave the accountant the third party's email address, firstname@lastname.co. The transaction was taking a while to get resolved. After repeated followups, the accountant finally told me that he was having a hard time getting a hold of the third party. Was I sure that their address was firstname@lastname.com? Like... what the heck. We're all corresponding over email. You could have literally clicked the email address in the email that I sent you. But instead, somehow you've mangled it and are confused that it doesn't work? That was instructive for me. .com TLDs only going forward!
- mxuribe 4y ago
  I hear ya! I've had my own last name .CC for well over a decade...and i still get the occasional "Did you mean .COM?" ....so nowadays i premptively state my email is: xyz@whatever.CC (that's .CC and NOT .COM)....and people get it nowadays more than in the past, though its funny that its only my fellow Americans who are not used to TLDs which are not .com, .net, .org. ;-)
AviationAtom 4y ago
I usually get: "@gmail.com?" "No, no. Not everyone has to use Gmail!"
- Cyberdog 4y ago
  My favorite is when someone is trying to ask you for your email address but asks it as "What's your Gmail?"

twbarr 4y ago

I never had problems with [initials]@[short university name].edu, but my current email address, of the form n@nnn.nn, causes all sorts of problems with filters. My newest favorite bug was Adobe's password rules which demanded that the part of my email address before the @ not appear in the password.