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Professional e-mail address naming convention, [email protected] or [email protected]?
- Thread starter Waluigi's World
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I work in tech and a couple people have first @ last.com, and I think it's just the tackiest fucking thing lol. I don't know why, it just rubs me the wrong way for some reason
First.last is my preferred method.
you get exactly what is the first name and last name. You also can update it with middle initials if multiple people with the same name are hired
you get exactly what is the first name and last name. You also can update it with middle initials if multiple people with the same name are hired
FYI if you use gmail (or your work uses gmail apps i believe) the periods are stripped out so
[email protected] == [email protected]
[email protected] == [email protected]
Honestly? Unless your email is like [email protected] or something stupid like that you're probably fine to use whatever your normal one would probably be. Personalized domain emails are... not tacky but close to it. FirstLast@whatever woks well enough mot times if you don't want them to have your real email.
If we're talking about, say, work emails firstinitial.lastname@whatever is probably least worrisome, because you can always add more initials if you have more than one person matching that combination.
If we're talking about, say, work emails firstinitial.lastname@whatever is probably least worrisome, because you can always add more initials if you have more than one person matching that combination.
You can add multiple periods. I've scored soo much free shit on slickdeals doing that.
First.Last is the way my company does it. they only go weird when they have multiple people with the same first and last name
There's not much to choose between the poll options; they're all fine. All that matters is not having anything goofy in either the alias or domain. I have a slight preference for avoiding periods or other delimiters in the alias, but with full names I guess it can help readability. I do not like uppercase characters in email addresses—they're not case sensitive anyway, so should be written all lowercase.
Also I don't get the hate for using a personal domain. Seems smarter to me to own your email address rather than have it tied to some specific service.
Also I don't get the hate for using a personal domain. Seems smarter to me to own your email address rather than have it tied to some specific service.
[email protected]. Then the first part can also be used for account usernames.
My last company had a crazy domain name. One of our users had an email like [email protected]
We changed to [email protected] and it changed to [email protected]
I bought my surname.me 10 years ago. So my email is [email protected] - [email protected]
My last company had a crazy domain name. One of our users had an email like [email protected]
We changed to [email protected] and it changed to [email protected]
I bought my surname.me 10 years ago. So my email is [email protected] - [email protected]
Prefer [email protected] for aesthetic but for practicality prefer [email protected]
[email protected] can get complicated as addresses aren't case sensitive and depending on the names can run together weirdly.
[email protected] can get complicated as addresses aren't case sensitive and depending on the names can run together weirdly.
❌ [email protected]
âś… [email protected]
Uppercase in e-mail addresses make you look like some old ass boomer
âś… [email protected]
Uppercase in e-mail addresses make you look like some old ass boomer
For some reason that bothers me less than [email protected] haha. I'm not saying I'm acting rationally haha
I have a personal domain, for my professional career, and occasional freelancing. So my main is [email protected], then I have a couple of assorted ones, based on the needs and how people can reach me (work@, hello@, talk@, etc.)
Every company I've worked for has used firstinitiallastname@.
Depends on the size of the company though, if you're running a company that's like 5 people and don't plan on going bigger then I think firstname@ is fine.
Depends on the size of the company though, if you're running a company that's like 5 people and don't plan on going bigger then I think firstname@ is fine.
I made the mistake on my very first gmail account (this back in 2004, and I had to pay $5 for it since people were selling invites) of using [email protected]. This was going to be my resume email. It didn't take long for me to wish I would have done either [email protected] or [email protected]. By the time I realized that they were gone. That said I did correct that with Apple email, which is [email protected] (thankfully @me.com still works, no @icloud.com here).
Fun fact about using a period in your email address, a lot of providers don't care about it. I get email for both [email protected] and [email protected].
Fun fact about using a period in your email address, a lot of providers don't care about it. I get email for both [email protected] and [email protected].
My work does first.last@domain.
Personally I have a first.last@domain that I used in high school, but the personal one I use now is first[middle-initial]last@domain. Meanwhile my college e-mail (which we were able to keep) is [first-initial][middle-initial]last@domain.
I believe you can also add a "+" and then whatever text you want to at the end. Good for that kind of thing and when you have to sign up for something you think is likely to cause you to get spam, since you'll know for sure where they got your e-mail from.
Personally I have a first.last@domain that I used in high school, but the personal one I use now is first[middle-initial]last@domain. Meanwhile my college e-mail (which we were able to keep) is [first-initial][middle-initial]last@domain.
I believe you can also add a "+" and then whatever text you want to at the end. Good for that kind of thing and when you have to sign up for something you think is likely to cause you to get spam, since you'll know for sure where they got your e-mail from.
Considering it's your domain, why not just [email protected], and forward basically anything @yourdomain.com to your primary mailbox?
Correct. I get mail from some dood in the U.K. all the time because of this. I actually switched to Outlook cause I see this as a massive security issue.
Some websites have wonky or only partial support for the "+" sign though. So for example it can happen that the sign-up form accepts the "+" but the sign-in form doesn't accept it, meaning you're screwed after signing up.
GMail also ignores a + and everything after it. So, your.email+some.tag, for example. It's a nice way to know how your email ends up on spam lists.
That just means some dood from the UK signed up using your GMail and the site didn't verify their address. I have my firstname.lastname@gmail cos I got in on GMail early, and I get all sorts of stuff from people around the world with my name. I even had someone try to recover my Google acct earlier in the year.
What do those of you with two (not hyphenated) last names do when using periods?
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Wouldn't the bigger security risk be allowing First.Last and FirstLast to exist independently on the same domain?
Hyphen: [email protected]
Plus your first suggestion is ambiguous because it can be mistaken as [email protected]
Even if your last names aren't hyphenated? Sorry should have been more clear.
Every company email I've been given over the years has been [email protected]. My personal Outlook email is [email protected] while my personal domain is [email protected]
My current academic email is [email protected] and it's so damn unwieldy. Too many full stops for my liking.
My current academic email is [email protected] and it's so damn unwieldy. Too many full stops for my liking.