My first name ends in 'in'. So, I registered <2-(n-2) letters of first name>.in, giving me an email address of the form [email protected]. If you remove the '@' and the '.', you just get my first name.

I thought I was being clever at the time, but nobody gets it. Sigh.

I have my own with an 'hn' domain, with the @ replacing the 'a' in my first name. Usually non-technical people gets it and they find it amusing.

Something like [email protected]?

I did something similar but used the @ as an A in my name

I have my own one: *.tel (my name is *tel). My email is *@*.tel; lots of people get it. Life is good.

Did you have delivery issues to Western email addresses, given the .in origin of your mail?

I also use a .in in the US and the only delivery issues I have is when trying to give someone my email address over the phone.

That said, I probably receive >>100x as many emails as I send so I'm not sure I can really say I've tested sending emails particularly thoroughly.

Not OP, but Discover bank Zelle signup refused to believe that an email can end in .in. It accepted happily an email ending in .us.

I have not observed any delivery issues yet, but I seldom use the .in address.

For a brief amount of time, I did a similar thing and hosted my personal website on the domain that spelled my full name using the .si TLD after finding a registrar that let me buy one (turns out that `.si` is the country prefix for Slovenia, and I guess they let people from outside the country buy their domains). It was a bit more expensive than a .com domain, but still reasonable (I think in the $20-25 range), but I didn't end up renewing it after even many of my classmates in the computer science program at my college seemed to be confused by it.

same, it's better than a business card, especially among tech circles

"just email me at 'my name at my last name but dot ski'"

super memorable and shows you know your way around the stack :)

I have a gmail account that I grabbed when I worked at Google that reads very fake. It might as well be spam@ (it's not). Geeks love it. Normal people think I'm lying. (Geeks think I'm lying too but I can prove it, so they quickly more to the loving it phase.) I often get replies from support teams quickly because they want to see if it's fake.

Let me guess: root?

postmaster? admin?

email@gmail?

I had exactly the same experience with a .name domain two decades ago. You'll explain every single time you mention it.

And I thought short domains are cool and abbreviated the name to 3 letters. Today I only communicate the full <first>@<last>.name.

I learned a lot about slooowly migrating names along the way.

Do you have issues with spam filters blocking your emails? I've heard that any non `.com` email is a mess from a deliverability perspective.

I use @pm.me (Protonmail’s domain) and I’ve had a couple of instances where emails I send bounce or email systems of certain corps won’t deliver to me. It’s pretty rare but it happens maybe once a year or so. Notably the web server of the government of the city I live in (Austin, TX) won’t accept emails from that domain so I have to use my Gmail to communicate with them.

I think the biggest issue is signing up to websites. I support a .org.au domain and get occasional complaints people can't use online services that declare it to not be a valid tld.