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.*.
Comment on domain name with your own name?
pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 7 months agoLol, 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 ‘nameofstore@lastname•com’?”
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Tanoh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Makes sense. The one that pops into mind is Auvik, and I was trying to register as auvik@mydomain.com.
DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.