Re:Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
by Semaphor on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @11:44PM
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Which companies are those? Is there a list somewhere? The only time I ever encountered this was with AliExpress.
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Did that change? My AliExpress account is using [email protected]
I don’t know, I registered some time last year. Maybe it’s also the TLD? I have .me.
I've got a [email protected]. My dentist and several large companies refuse to accept this as a valid email address, so I have to use an email that doesn't identify me personally by name (uses efreak instead of my name). This annoys me every time I deal with them, especially since some of these sites use my email address as a username. I've been locked out from logging in on other devices a couple times for trying too many passwords when the problem was the address, not the password.
From memory, AliExpress wouldn't accept [email protected], but [email protected] was fine.
Interesting, so maybe I should have used a different prefix. Weird design.