Does it have any significance?
i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.
any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.
for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s [email protected].
this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.
it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.
ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!
I do this. It’s excellent, no regrets. You can use sublevel domains for more organization
Etc, so it’s easier to set alert and category filters. For instance I disable new mail notifications for shopping.domain addresses
If I know a email will truly be temporary, then I just one of those 10 minute email services.
gonna have to see about perhaps implementing this…
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ooh! the cheapskate part of me likes this option!
I do the same but also have a few trap addresses nobody sane should see or email to, but is easy for scrapers to grab. Easy way to train the spam filter.
Got any examples?
Genius!
I’ve done this as well for a number of years (probably close to 5 at this point) and have only noticed one service that got hacked and my domain got leaked. No spam at all really, but I’ve stayed on top of unsubscribing to all marketing emails
Did this forever first with Google, at least them I’d know instantly who sold my info.
Now I do the same with my mailbox.com account, and delete the aliases occasionally.
Yooo this is actually genius.
https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/
(currently not reachable, archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240804081128/https://www.notcheckmark.com/2022/06/catch-all-domain/)
some interesting points in this article, but none that are dealbreakers for me continuing the way i currently handle my email. the one example of : “your email is Hilton? do you work here?” typically no employee actually cares enough to ask that question. i have been running my email this way for 20 years (ish), so my sample size is large enough to suggest my results are reliable.
still great food for thought, though!
True, and I’m happy that you didn’t take it as criticism. Just wanted to add another perspective :)
can’t learn new things, if other perspectives are angrily dismissed!
It’s the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.
Its my old gmail account.
I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don’t generally get any spam.
My junk mail address is the name people hear when I say my actual name. So I guess it’s the more common, phonetically similar name to mine.
My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.
Sounds good. Which provider do you use?
I don’t know who OP uses, but I know that Fastmail has that feature and its pretty handy.
That was what I’m using. With Protonmail they bought SimpleLogin and it was more or less the same.
It’s my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it’s already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam
Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn’t ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.
Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.
Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use
I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.
Love it
It’s my Hotmail account
Same. The sweep feature is great for things from online shops I haven’t unsubscribed from yet.
Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I’ve always used Don B. Sonozi - [email protected]
I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.
It’s my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I’m talking “[email protected]” levels of cringe.
Buy a cheap xyz domain. Use catchall address.
