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Professional e-mail address naming convention, [email protected] or [email protected]?
- Thread starter Waluigi's World
- Start date
Zoe is correct. The period on other domains is used for phishing.
Don't use the dot, I have [email protected] and got tons of emails meant for [email protected] because some domains ignore it still.
If you're using gmail, periods do not factor in, i.e. [email protected] and [email protected] resolve to the same mailbox. So you can use either one if you want, having a period usually makes it easier to read though.
Yeah that's probably the one of the better options even if it doesn't quite match other employees' emails. :(
[email protected] is pretty classy.
a lot of smaller consulting firms and founders/startup team guys of larger firms get to flex with [email protected]
a lot of smaller consulting firms and founders/startup team guys of larger firms get to flex with [email protected]
I prefer firstinitialLastname@domain but Depends how big it is. When I worked in a huge school district and there were a few dozen "Smith"s who worked there it go crazy with
davSmith
dSmith
deSmith
kSmith
KeSmith
KeeSmith
caused a lot of confusion where firstnamelastname wouldnt as much.
davSmith
dSmith
deSmith
kSmith
KeSmith
KeeSmith
caused a lot of confusion where firstnamelastname wouldnt as much.
First.Last
Some last names don't begin with a capitalized letter and this format avoids the most confusion.
Some last names don't begin with a capitalized letter and this format avoids the most confusion.
My actual work email for outlook is [email protected]
So John Smith would be like [email protected].
The alias used for outward public listings and my business card is [email protected].
So John Smith would be like [email protected].
The alias used for outward public listings and my business card is [email protected].
That's what i thought too until I started seeing his bills and Facebook and PoF account updates and the like. The moment that happened I switched. I'd been using Gmail for.....god - I got the beta invite for in 2003 so....12 years? I switched in 2015 to Outlook and Office (now Microsoft) 365.
Indeed.
Indeed. I still find it a security risk with Google however as I should have never seen the other guys bills and personal info, much like he probably got some of my personal stuff. Gmail needs a better way to delineate between the 2 - or not even give the option to use a period in the address.
I ran into this with Gmail where I occasionally get emails from a guy across the country with my email but without the period.
Someone stole my [email protected] email despite having a pretty uncommon lastname, so I was forced into [email protected] :(
I used to get someone's tax returns. I had someone's eBay account for a while. You'd be amazed how many services will let you change your email address without verification.
Just so we're clear: there is no other account with or without a period in the address. Nobody else was seeing your emails. Someone just managed to convince FB and PoF to accept your email with a period as a valid email for their account. PoF doesn't do email validation at all even today I don't think,
My work email is [email protected] but I have a super common Chinese last name so I have no hopes of getting a clean personal email from either Gmail or Outlook. Gotta throw in numbers, hometown, etc.
I like First.Last personally. For my work though it's firstinitiallast (no space, lowercase).
Sidebar: The worst part about gmail's decision to not really account for the . is how many people sign up for shit with my name without adding in the period and it works. It's so frustrating. Quit using my gd email you bastards! Some sites don't make it easy to cancel someone else's account or force them to change the email listed either since they require some verification you're the account owner.
Sidebar: The worst part about gmail's decision to not really account for the . is how many people sign up for shit with my name without adding in the period and it works. It's so frustrating. Quit using my gd email you bastards! Some sites don't make it easy to cancel someone else's account or force them to change the email listed either since they require some verification you're the account owner.
No that's not how it works. You can't make both [email protected] and [email protected]
The person who "owns" [email protected] also owns [email protected] and [email protected] etc.
Fair enough. I usually use it for mailing list type stuff, I guess, so it doesn't matter as much there.
I guess this is a good thread to ask, I need a semi professional email address. What domain should I use? I can't use most of the popular ones like Gmail without adding on bunch of extra characters to my name(s) for them to be unique.
I could get one with [email protected], would that be somewhat respectable?
I could get one with [email protected], would that be somewhat respectable?
its funny because its the same address, unless Google screwed something up.
Solid advice here! I use the + for pretty much everything where I register with that address.
I would prefer [email protected].
My company does first name initial, last name, then the domain. That gets messy because for the more generic last names there are some duplicates that I know of like.
My company does first name initial, last name, then the domain. That gets messy because for the more generic last names there are some duplicates that I know of like.
[email protected] can look nice, too. There's no requirement at my company but I've seen a lot of people choose this.
I do first initial middle initial last name @ domaindotcom. I do it partly because, in my case, it works out as a pun and I don't take it that seriously. I think that's perfectly fine as a general go-to though. edit: the poster above me was on my wavelength, I see.
I hate the dot. Anyone who does the dot is a monster.
I hate the dot. Anyone who does the dot is a monster.
Literally every professional email I've had is firstintialLastname(till it cuts off because my name is just too long I guess)@domain.com. Much better than anything else
I guess at my current job I have both the [email protected] and [email protected] but no one uses the second one.
I guess at my current job I have both the [email protected] and [email protected] but no one uses the second one.
Yep. I occasionally get emails that are clearly not intended for me from time to time (and wonder how many of mine are going to that other person...) the most annoying bit is that I try to forward them so the person gets them but they still just keep coming back to me.
My works email is firstdotlast for everyone there and I hate saying it out loud on the phone to people.
At work we are [email protected]
For my personal email, I set up Google Apps on my own domain years ago when it was free to do. I have my last name as a domain. My actual email address is [first initial]@[last name]. So imagine if my name is John Smith, it's "[email protected]"
I thought it was a neat idea at the time but I wouldn't recommend doing this because it confuses some people and occasionally I run into web forms that are coded poorly and don't recognize a single-letter first part as valid. For that reason I had to set up a forwarding address so that "[email protected]" also goes to my inbox.
But ultimately as long as your email address isn't something weird like [email protected], no one is going to care about the particulars.
For my personal email, I set up Google Apps on my own domain years ago when it was free to do. I have my last name as a domain. My actual email address is [first initial]@[last name]. So imagine if my name is John Smith, it's "[email protected]"
I thought it was a neat idea at the time but I wouldn't recommend doing this because it confuses some people and occasionally I run into web forms that are coded poorly and don't recognize a single-letter first part as valid. For that reason I had to set up a forwarding address so that "[email protected]" also goes to my inbox.
But ultimately as long as your email address isn't something weird like [email protected], no one is going to care about the particulars.
I don't know about corporate Gmail, but if it's personal then only the one address exists. The other person is entering the wrong email somewhere.
first.last is the vast majority of what I see.
Caps don't make any difference in email addresses.
Caps don't make any difference in email addresses.
Don't know what to tell you. I get emails for [email protected] for a guy who has my name when I have the one with a period. I actually got one about a job interview he set up but forwarding kept sending it back to me.
If you send an email to that address it will go to you. Because that is your email address.
Some other mistake is happening for you to get his emails. It happens to me too because my email is first initial second initial common last name.
Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses - Gmail Help
If someone accidentally adds dots to your address when emailing you, you'll still get that email. For example, if your email is [email protected], you own all dotted versions of your address: jo
support.google.com
nah i check it every time it happens and they are legitmately sending it to [email protected] and i'm getting it at [email protected]
I'm pretty sure people are just sending it to the wrong email address. I've gotten mail meant for [email protected] and [email protected] because I have [email protected], for example. Human error is faaaar more likely than mail servers screwing up.
i have the first option but because it was set up by the company. don't know what i'd use otherwise tbh