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Why not first@last.tld?
Is it because it somehow confuses everyone who hears it and they put a dot where the at should be?
I own lastname.net and accordingly my email is firstname@lastname.net. Ofc. I stupidly created email accounts for my relatives with firstname@lastname.net and in the process became tech-support for my entire extended family.
You WON'T BELIEVE the amount of times I get a phonecall because they can't log into firstname.lastname.net or firstname@lastname.de or firstname.lastname.de or firstname.lastname@de it drives me crazy!
My wife and I have
Firstname@lastname.family….
A lot of websites don’t take it due to shitty validators and people write it as Firstname@lastname.family.com and then complain they can’t email us.
We’d buy lastname.com, but someone else owns it