So I’m planing making a new personal email, but I don’t I don’t know how it should be!
examples:
DennisBusey@mail.com
DennisB@mail.com
DBusey@mail.com
Gime your ideas!
BIG EDIT: Thanks for your answers!
This email is personal, and apart from giving it to friends, bank, gov and couple bill companies, I won’t give it anywhere else. Also the privacy people where to much IMO, not easy to remember number and letters.
my preferred name (short version of my name) is a few letters long
You should have no fewer than 3 email addresses. 1 for official use that you shouldn’t feel embarrassed about giving to another adult or putting on a resume. 2nd for anonymous logins or at least for those frequent but maybe expect a little spam. 3rd you can have as many as you want but you need spam/throw away email addresses.
That being said, none of them should give away too much information about you but the official email should give just enough of a hint so that someone that knows you might recognize your email address. So never put your full name or an important date/number in your email address.
After a long explanation why, I recommend first name letter after full last name with a symbol.
That’s what I actually do, personal for anything related friends, wors and government, second for some subs like events and stuff like these, and third for spams.
I happen to have first.middle.last@acertainfreehost that I use for government things. I wanted first.last, but there are a few of “me” out there and one of them beat me to it.
Which is partly to say that you might find that now you’ve posted your ideas here that someone has taken them all before you, so I hope you didn’t use your real name. And I still feel sorry for ol’ Dennis if you didn’t.
One alternative might be to get your own domain name. Plenty of hosting companies will do a domain and mail forwarding if not some tier of hosting for cheap. Many give a handful of accounts in the base price. (Though it should be noted that it’s a well-known money grab because it’s usually very simple to have <anything>@domain go to one mailbox for collection and sorting elsewhere. Storage management does not have to be at the mailbox level either.)
my personal email does not feature my name in any form
I have two addresses that both end up in the same inbox. The other is firstname.lastname and I only give that to people/businesses that know my name anyway - everyone else gets the other one which doesn’t include my name.
I never have anything that can identify my real name in the address. Why make it easy for data scrapers?
Is this common? I thought we were supposed to use FullNameNumber@Email.com for personal, and just avoid using it for any spammy stuff. Instead use it for Work and contacting real people
Maybe common, but not advised. The only place I willingly follow real name protocols in emails is in dedicated work intranets where corporate policy dictates how addresses go.
Anything on the open web is anonymized as much as I can make it. Fake address, fake user details, everything. There is no privacy in systems connected to the unrestricted internet.
For stuff like government and bills receipts, mainly and then for friends. I won’t give it to subscribe on YouTube or anything like this, because I have another email for stuff like these.
You can register an email address as “jigglypuff666forever” or whatever nonsense you want. The government certainly doesn’t give a shit, and as long as your family and friends know that a specific string of numbers and letters means “you” in the address book, why does it matter?
If you’re worried about professionalism, I don’t really see much difference between “johnqpublic@email.com” and “greenthumbmcgee@email.com” except one tells the world your full name, and the other just gives away that you like gardening. Both are equally G-rated and acceptable, but only one is a security nightmare.
Still, I want my name in it, so people know it’s and only me! Not just couple letters and numbers, that can confuse others.
That’s no guarantee. I met a guy with my same first and (fairly rare) last name when I traveled to another city. Now I know to whom the banking emails I get belong. And, while they practice better data security now, a few years ago I could tell you every time he bounced a check.
Not guarantee if you live in USA I should guess? My name and last name is not so common in my country.
How is my email? It’s fine, and it thanks you for asking! ☺️
Lol good one.
For professional email I recommend firstname.lastname@domain because it’s very common and lets people almost uniquely identify you from your email address alone. You could also register a domain such as lastname.com such that you can use firstname@lastname.com. Just make sure to use a reputable email host to make sure that your emails don’t end up in spam.
Do not use your real name or any other personally identifiable information in your email address.
Lastname@gmail.com
Firstname@lastname.com…the result of having an extremely rare last name.
Shit, we found John Tutamail!!!
I tried that, unfortunately my last name is also a brand of water. So I had to use @lastname.co which was available, but people kept adding the m and I missed on emails so I had to not do that hahahah
Protect your privacy by never using your name, phone, post code, DOB in your email address. Make it something short and easy to remember, as well as easy to say to people when they ask for it. If it’s your personal domain, you can do anything. Perhaps you are an airplane enthusiast, it could be 747@MyPersonalDomain.org, but if it’s not your domain you need to be creative, Seven47@mail.com easy to remember and not embarrassing like HotGrannie1912@coolmail.com .
I have a work email, an email with my name for only personal/professional contacts outside work, a sign-up email, and my email from 2005 for some reason that I use for dominos.
Buy a domain, and you have all of the addresses.
For personal email mail@initialslastname.eu
Our family all have their own initialslastname.eu or .nl domain for official stuff.
Pretty happy with that, it wasn’t available 10 years ago, someone obviously gave up squatting it.
In the late 90s I was crushed to find my lastname.com/.net/.org had all been registered by a family-run business that’s been operating in my grandparents’ home country for 200 years. Looks like they’re still around, too.
You could always email them asking for a subdomain!
Or join them!
I thought about it back then but they’re pretty big now. Very modern website and they deliver anywhere in Europe
Offer them drop shipping services to wherever you are 😆
