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.
54 Comments
Kernal64@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 156d
How is my email? It's fine, and it thanks you for asking! ☺️
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d
Lol good one.
brem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
.. Epstein files
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 156d
Lastname@gmail.com
Firstname@lastname.com
....the result of having an extremely rare last name.
grranibal@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 156d
Shit, we found John Tutamail!!!
Nibodhika@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
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
Zier@fedia.io · 12 pts · 156d
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 .
kboos1@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 156d
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.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d
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.
Nighed@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 156d
Firstname@lastname.net
Pretty happy with that, it wasn't available 10 years ago, someone obviously gave up squatting it.
Because it's my domain I can give anyone possibly spammy any first part and still get it.
glimse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d
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.
Nighed@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 156d
You could always email them asking for a subdomain!
Or join them!
glimse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
I thought about it back then but they're pretty big now. Very modern website and they deliver anywhere in Europe
Nighed@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 156d
Offer them drop shipping services to wherever you are 😆
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 6 pts · 156d
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 156d
eLiTeh4x0r@email.com is frustrating to attempt to spell out to the clerk at the other side of the counter.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 156d
And just try reading it over the phone to someone, especially a non-native-english speaker.
My personal email is first initial with last name, which I can simply tell them without having to try to spell anything out.
I have a state job tho, and there it's first initial and middle initial and last name, why the hell... now I can't email a colleague without looking at a sheet to find their middle initial. Stupid.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
E like easter, L like love, I like Iron, T like toast, E like Easter again, H like Hood, 4, X like X, 0 and R like Ring @ email.com.
And you have to memorize it! Cause giving it daily its gonna be nuts.
Localhorst86@feddit.org · 2 pts · 154d
"M, as in Mancy"
hesh@quokk.au · 6 pts · 156d
Do not use your real name or any other personally identifiable information in your email address.
Nebulous_Keito@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 156d
If you're privacy consious, then I would suggest not using anything related to your real life, let alone hobbies, name, birth year. Use completely random words! Tip if you're pretty privacy consious: Use alias emails and connect those with your main email. I suggest services like AnonAddy, SimpleLogin.
I have 3 gmail accounts which I extremely rarely open or use. Email address of first one is my nickname+birth year. Second one is like a Chinese version of my actual nickname, I guess this could be counted as a pseudonym. Third one is full name+birth year. My Proton Mail email address is a username based on my hobby. My Tuta Mail address is made of completely random words and random numbers.
Beth@piefed.social · 4 pts · 156d
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.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 156d
my personal email does not feature my name in any form
Nomad@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 156d
First.n@me.lastna.me
one_old_coder@piefed.social · 4 pts · 156d
I prefer shorter emails like "dbusey@..." but to each his own.
Today@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
Same. I use my initials and a number, so DB7@email.com.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
Indeed.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 156d
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.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 156d
FirstnameAdjectiveIlike
glimse@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
JohnWizardly
nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 156d
I ended up on first@full.domain
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
I never have anything that can identify my real name in the address. Why make it easy for data scrapers?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
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
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d
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.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
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.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d
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.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d
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.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
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.
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 156d
Not guarantee if you live in USA I should guess? My name and last name is not so common in my country.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 2 pts · 156d
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 @domain go to one mailbox for collection and sorting elsewhere. Storage management does not have to be at the mailbox level either.)
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
Interesting thanks!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
preferredName@mydomain.com
my preferred name (short version of my name) is a few letters long
tangible@piefed.social · 2 pts · 156d
bricked@feddit.org · 2 pts · 156d
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.
cymor@midwest.social · 2 pts · 156d
Buy a domain, and you have all of the addresses.
kindenough@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 156d
For personal email mail@initialslastname.eu
Our family all have their own initialslastname.eu or .nl domain for official stuff.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
mIDDLE.lAST_First@mail.org
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 154d
Nice try!
sveltecider@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 154d
firstname@firstname-initial.ca is mine for "professional" use
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 156d
its pretty hard to get anything without numbers or such. are you running your own? If so I would just take something you like that is easy to spell and hopefully your domain is short and easy to spell.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d
The key is simply signing up to gmail 15± years ago
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 156d
even by 2010 it was getting tough. heck yahoo and aol it was hard to not have a number much earlier.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 154d
i never use my real name or any identify credentials, i often come up/make up words that sound similar to real ones.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
What will you use it for?
Job hunting and white collar business use, be very formal.
For subscriptions and other private functions, use what ever.
Lj404333@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 156d
First 2 objects you see around you and a number. One for personal, one for healthcare etc and one for spam and one timers
Staplerfridge69@email.com