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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

I gave up. I own my name as a domain.

So if my name was John Doe, as an example, my domain would be Johndoe.com and my email would be John@Johndoe (dot) com.

My name isn't John Doe.

Gmail is cool and all, but it's pretty sweet to have my custom domain name and email.

The domain I really want is just my last name, so I can be firstname@lastname (dot) com.

Unfortunately my last name isn't uncommon and the last time I checked, the squatters on the domain were asking like $3k usd for it.

All kind of nope on that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I currently have my full name on GMail and Proton, but I actually had my first name on GMail when it first launched. As in, if my name was Brian (it isn't (it might be (it isn't))) I had [email protected]. Sold it for £1000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Wouldnt you get extra spam for having such a simple name?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Probably more a problem for Americans all being named John Smith

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I’m so old I was able to get my kids Gmail with his name.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I got my gmail as my name like a year ago because I just have an uncommon name (Denvil)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Denvil my man, have a great day!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

My partner has his [email protected]. no letter number €_-+() or whatever.

Stupid part now is that sometimes he gets mail for letter . /_/ - lastname. Only on important stuff he reacts. He still is happy with it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I have this and the other people with my name give it as their own email address all the time, apparently not understanding that you don’t get the address just for existing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That’s pretty good, for how bad it is.

I have a pretty old gmail address that’s fmlast@gmail, and several years ago there was a lady with fmlast12@gmail who kept leaving the numbers off. It wasn’t that bad though, and for one or two important things I replied to help.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

it happens to me too, though my format is lastname.firstinitial, so I have more potential for confusion as my last name isn't super uncommon.

people just sign up for stuff with it. sometimes banks even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ha ha this happens to me so much. I even had to help a poor dude out because his account (and stuff getting delivered) all was under my email.

On a side note, I got the firstnamelastname@gmail, but Gmail often proposed the firstname.lastname@gmail in autocomplete, with my image and all, so I just "recovered" it. Now I have both when I'm trying to ditch Google 🤷🏼‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Gmail addresses with and without a dot are actually identical. Mine has a dot but I also get emails without the dot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

There must be some names that invalidates your claim (I'm just bewildered if it's true)

Like Abc Def and Ab Cdef style. Or is firs.tnamelastname valid too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Learned something today then! 👍

Edit: doesn't work for me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Ugh same. My first name is very common, last name moderately uncommon. I've gotten loads of stuff. Various quotes and invoices (vet, mechanic, window installation), invitations to child care groups, family gathering invitations (that one I think was the person writing the email address, not the person with my name).

Most of the time I just immediately unsubscribe or block or whatever and move on, but there's some (like the child care group) I had to reach out to because that could be potentially dangerous.

Get your own email right, people! It shouldn't be my responsibility to manage your email. Some of that shit includes your home address too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

My name is uncommon enough that I can always pick my name everywhere, and when I can't it means I forgot I had an account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Summer 2005. I have the first letters for my name and middle names and then the full last name dot gmail.com. However, nowadays I use my own domain. Since 2008 i got my own domain dot country code but it was for selfhosting. 4 letters dot country code. Only last three years ago i switch to use it for mail as well. I dont host my inbox, just forwards it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I got <first_name_initial><middle_name_initial><last_name>@gmail.com in imitation of my university webmail account name. My brother who had the same first name and middle name initials knew this and had adjusted accordingly.

However, recently, someone registered this e-mail for school and I kept receiving their school e-mails.

My e-mail account is already roughly two decades old at this point, so I thought I was safe from this kind of problem.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

And here I am, with a [email protected] address, running my own mail server.

  • People sometimes act like this is pure magic
  • Some providers only allow popular mail services on signup (fuck those), so I had to set up a GMail address that just redirects to my actual one
  • My last name is really hard to spell, so it probably wasn't the best idea, since I always struggle communicating that address verbally

The pain of running this still beats having to deal with a free provider out there that either spams my inbox with their own BS or just skims through the data to serve me ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I have a few domain names, including firstnamelastname.co.uk. I mostly use it for spam monitoring; everyone gets a different address, so eBay has ebay@, Microsoft has microsoft@, etc. It's harder for them to link my identities together and if I suddenly start getting fuckloads of spam I know who leaked/sold my address. Fuck you, LinkedIn and LastFM.

I also had my own email server until recently (MailInABox on Proxmox), but I was looking for a cloud storage provider so I ended up signing up for Proton and moving my email there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

QR codes can help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I have @firstnamelastname.tld since last name was taken (unrelated to me).

Typically use [email protected] when giving out my email to keep track of spam so I used [email protected] when buying tickets.

At the check in the person saw my airline@ email and askes: oh do you also work for airline?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I was there when gmail was invented
Was there during the invitation period
Someone picked my preferred name
I ended up with a kinda dumb name
Didn't matter much, because my primary email is a redirect, anyway, and gmail still lets me use those (kudos to them)
Google came up with Google Code (and other services) where your public gmail address is your identity
Nope, fuck off
Glad they died. Shame Github got eaten by Microsoft, but, eh...
Google hasn't really been good at letting people specify their identity, ever since
Yes, this is also a transgender user story, why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

I thought it was an April fools gag.

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