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27 May 2021, 06:08 AM | #1 |
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Personal Domain with First Name - what prefix to use?
Hello,
What prefix do you use with your personal domains? I have some domains and I feel kinda OCD with the repetition.. what do you do in these cases:
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27 May 2021, 06:45 PM | #2 |
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I don't have personally-named domains at all - but I do have domains that I own which don't involve my name.
I use hundreds of different addresses at those domains, so the lefthand part usually has some sort of connection to the place I'm sending the email to. I have a system for assigning email addresses, indicating if they're eg just for registering with websites, mails to personal friends, mails to family members, local businesses, banks, local government, national government ... and so on. It means eg that just one filter rule can identify any reply arriving from any family member. Even throwaway addresses have a theme in their names, which also include the date I first used them. It's therefore easy to see when something likely to be spam arrives if it is to an address used only once for real, eg 8 years ago... I /could/ block such things at the server, but am thinking about revising the naming I use for these so that every January I could update the on-server rules and lose another year's worth of replies to old addresses ... but it's hassle. I also don't want a new naming scheme to be so obvious that spammers can invent valid values that equate to future dates. |
27 May 2021, 09:58 PM | #4 | |
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Quoting myself from that old thread:
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28 May 2021, 02:43 AM | #5 |
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28 May 2021, 10:08 PM | #6 | |
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29 May 2021, 01:54 AM | #7 |
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It is kind of repetitive and kind of weird huh. I was lucky to get my lastname.us. So I just use firstname@mylastname.us. It works pretty nicely.
You can also pick some other tld you like that doesn't have anything to do with your last name. Then you can be firstname or firstnamelastname@your_own_domain.com. I'd rather do that then firstname@firstnamelastname.com. But it's preference. Some people probably don't care. I'd say most people don't! In the end, as long as the email gets there, and you're using professional types of domains on resumes and stuff, then it's all good. |
29 May 2021, 02:29 AM | #8 |
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There's probably some additional privacy and security by not using your actual family name in an email address you use universally for many things. Makes it a little bit harder for the bad guys to tie your information together. But, it does make sense for business purposes, applying for jobs, etc.
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29 May 2021, 03:56 AM | #9 | |
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lastname.tld firstnamelastname.tld I've also had the hassle of the misspelling of my last name, which included flight tickets, hotel reservations, and most recently the car registration document for my latest vehicle! For the majority of my e-mail correspondence, I have registered an easy to spell and remember domain name, and find that works well. |
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