So I got hold of a domain that shows my exact full name. I thought it would be useful for showing up as “professional” when working in IT and sending resumes.

I got some mail forwarded using the domain registrar. I also made a small static website, which only has hello world for now but soon will get the contents filled up.

But then… what? I suppose I can host anything I want, but then there’s the whole “real name - gotta look professional” aspect that makes me weary of hosting a Lemmy instance, for example, when the domain without my name attached wouldn’t.

I suppose having personal domains were cool in the 90s where people were barely learning about “the internets”. Not so anymore?

Is there a usefulness in having a domain name with your real name attached on this age?

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      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’?”

      • SgtSuckaFree@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year 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.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.*.

        • Tanoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Or maybe it is a feeble attempt to annoy people that sign up with foo+service@somewhere.com and 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.

    • 8bitguy@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve encountered not being able to register using an email account that isn’t hosted by one of the major commercial providers. I had to create an @outlook account to use for this nonsense. If it’s something I don’t really need to do, I often just nope on out of their bullshit instead. Similarly, yesterday I encountered a site that wouldn’t let me submit their contact form if I didn’t turn off my adblocker. Sucks for them, I was going to place a decent order and just had a question.