Except it's an impossible solution for a lot of people, including myself. My name as a domain name is taken, and was taken long ago.

On all available tlds? Really?

For a good portion of my people (in my experience, at least 50%) any domain but .com might as well not exist. With them, ".com" is four characters that must ritually be applied to all domains to appease the computer gods.

well having [email protected] would require you to explain "that's a .ly not .com" and therefore not solve this particular problem

I have never had any trouble with "[email protected]". People type the characters in your email address verbatim. They do not randomly add stuff.

Ditto. .com is safe to tell people, anything else can lead to confusion.

Hey, where're the salary poll results?

Doesn't pass the verbal test. Is that "I" or is that "eye" or is it "aye"?

Right. I use me@...

Is that me or mee (noodles) or mi (musical note, do-ray-mi...)?

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