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Comment by axiosgunnar | Hacker News Reader

The best email is:

„You just wrote down my first and last name, right? Well, my email is firstname@lastname.com!“

If only. The amount of times people have tried to put mine down as $fistname.$lastname.$tld@gmail.com is genuinely sad. I have gotten used to speaking very slowly and clearly to make sure that doesn't happen, yet still, almost every time: > $firstname [pause] AT $lastname [pause] DOT $tld >> It says the email isn't valid > ok, what email did you put in? >> $firstname@$lastname.$tld@gmail.com > did I ever say gmail.com >> no, but.. > exactly, so let's try this again (goto 0)

Admittedly, I don't have the .com for my last name because.. you guessed it - scalpers, but at least it's a ccTLD. A friend of mine has his email on .ninja and he had to register a couple gmail addresses for the most common mistakes people made because some straight up wouldn't believe him it was an actual address and insisted they were helping him because he didn't know what he was doing and sent things to gmail.

The "let me fix your email for you" thing is pretty annoying. I don't get it a lot, but I have a catch-all email on one of my domains and I often register new accounts as service@domain.tld to keep track of spam. I've gotten people contacting me through other measures (when they require a phone number, for example) because they thought I put my email in wrong.

I have a scheme to give addresses per service, but I do this with gmail on my domain. It goes like $ACCOUNT+$RANDOMLETTERS@$DOMAIN.$TLD, of course there are notable number of services that do not accept addresses with "+". I prefer to not dictate e-mails to anyone, but when I say first it's a complicated address, people change mindset and really treat it like a phone number.

It has never happened to me in Poland. But maybe your conversation should go like this:

"My e-mail is _not_ at gmail.com. It is: $firstname@$lastname.$tld. Instead of gmail dot com it is $lastname dot $tld."

It would be tiring and a bit offensive to knowledgeable people, but maybe better then trying to debug the situation.

Some country second-level domains cause stupid warnings on badly implemented web forms. I wonder if customer support people have the same crap on the systems they use, leading them to "fix" the address.

It's not unusual for me to type in my email address, and see a validation warning appear below "did you mean xxxx@xxxx.co.uk?"

.co.uk is probably the most common, but who would mistype .net.uk, .plc.uk or similar as one of the valid second-level domains?

Maybe just get `$firstname@$lastname.$tld@gmail.com` and let them write down whatever.

For me, its, my last @ my first.net. Then they ask, but is it gmail.com? No there is no gmail.com in it. Do its last first at yahoo? No Sir, its last @ first .net. Hugh? What type of mail this is?

I made my domain.tld @ gmail.com, & yes, I get occasionally emails there meant for last @ domain.tld

I have "first@la.st". It sometimes trips people up, because the "st" part is for a country very far away.

Similar for me. My first and last name are 12 characters each though (Greek), so the step of writing those down correctly is the problem.

This is my problem. My email address only scores 2 (it's $firstname@$surname.$2ld.net), but for some reason everyone has problems spelling my surname even when spelt out to them.

And just to make sure it works if misinterpreted, I have both $firstname@$lastname.pl and firstname@lastname.pl :)

I have the same, but with a .dev TLD

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