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domain name with your own name?
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Use a second domain for your less professional stuff?
It is a bit of gimic though, and I suspect rather than coming across as professional on your resume, it will probably be more of a "huh, cool" kinda thing?
I have issues where companies won't let me register because 'you can't have your last name as the @lastname'. They don't trust it or whatever...I dunno
They have no issues trying to mail me their spam fliers but won't let me use it to communicate with them. Kinda fucky..but yes it is more of a that's cool moment.
Lol, I often get a lot of confirmations on if my email address is right whenever I am in contact with any customer service... I use a catch-all on lastname[dot]com.
"Is your email really 'nameofservice@lastname•com'?"
Glad to see I'm not the only one doing this. It definitely leads to a lot of small talk about my email domain, but I've never run into a situation yet where I couldn't sign up for something. My personal favorite is when reluctantly providing an email for something I don't care about I can spout out something like "blockthishottrash@mydomain.tld". That's lead to some fun reactions.
I’ve run into services that won’t let you use the name of their service in your email. They assume it’s is their email because they don’t look for
.*@servicename\.com$they look for.*servicename.*.Or maybe it is a feeble attempt to annoy people that sign up with
foo+service@somewhere.comand then sort it into different inboxes (of course you can filter on other things but + is built into gmail). You can also use it to see who sold your info when you get spam on that adress.Makes sense. The one that pops into mind is Auvik, and I was trying to register as auvik@mydomain.com.
Yeah, that's what happens, something cool but that's it. It would be nice if l could use it for something else other than a glorified online resume.
I also bought a cheap domain for experimenting around, so that's where all my "not so professional" stuff goes.