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I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address. It also results in awkwa
by paranoidrobot 1y ago
I do this, too - but I've been running into more and more companies that block you from using their company name in the email address.
It also results in awkward conversations if you have to talk to staff. I had ordered some pet supplies online a while ago registered like this.
Then I go in store more recently and they ask "Do you have an account with us?", I give them that email when asked, which causes them to pause. We went around a few times of them asking what my email was, before getting a manager who thought I was doing something dodgy and decided to try looking up my account by phone number instead of email.
- daveidol 1y agoThat’s pretty funny. If you use a password manager you could obviously just put something random instead of the company name.
- jenadine 1y agoOr just rot13 or some scheme like that.
- majkinetor 1y agoKISS, just add dot somewhere.
- cfn 1y agoNo try giving that email at the store.
- daveidol 1y agoI meant the password manager would just be to help you keep track of the names. The names themselves don't have to be long (e.g. `s11@mydomain.com`).
- dzhiurgis 1y agoOhhh good point. So many sites basically only accept gmail + some other popular provider.
- polycaster 1y agoI‘m following this scheme for years now and frankly never found a site that only accepts selected providers.
- asalahli 1y agoAliExpress is one of them, as far as I know
- topsecret 1y agoAliExpress uses my custom domain, but wouldn't accept anything with "aliexpress" in the local part.
- ThePowerOfFuet 1y agoCorrect, so I used "aliexpres" instead, which works.
- BoredPositron 1y agoA lot of asian genai startups are pretty picky and want emails from bigger providers. kling, qwen, hunyuan just to name a few.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoJust create a gmail account specifically for it if that's the case.
- polycaster 1y agoSame experience, but a different perception. I’ve always found it to be a great conversation starter when I did this with my business domain. Of course, it’s mainly about spam control, but some people even felt flattered to have their own personal email address. Then there was that one time I tried to open a new bank account using bankname@mydomain - it ended up involving three levels of management. On the bright side, though, they now greet me by name whenever I walk into the building.
- Imustaskforhelp 1y agoI think having a mail just seperately for bank can be good thing instead of having it on your own @mydomain I suppose? Also can we have things like 2FA in banking apps? I am pretty sure... Like my idea of thinking is to create a new proton account just for banking and doing the thing as in the article and not really ever linking the two of them or maybe even having a google account if proton causes any issue for my banks.
- BoredPositron 1y agoI had a small mom and pop shop threaten me with legal action because of copyright infringement...
- yencabulator 1y agoI find from.bigcorp.2137@mydomain.com doesn't trigger any shadiness detectors.