Comments on: Domain Shame: Your email branding

By: Photomaniacal » Blog Archive » Give us our daily brand | Colin Horgan

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:35:20 +0000

[...] – or, conversely, our lives ought to reflect our brand choices. Recently, writing on True/Slant, Kashmir Hill asked: “What does your email address say about you?” That seems to suggest that the [...]

By: andreaitis - de.tech.ting – Google’s social search circle jerk - True/Slant

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:44:45 +0000

[...] address, and that is my social search downfall. According to fellow T/S’er Kashmir Hill, it may also bring me domain shame and detract from my cool-ness, but I can live with that. What I can’t live with is this Social Search [...]

By: andreaitis

andreaitis — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:10 +0000

Oh John Sellers…kick my Bionic Woman lunchbox off my head and I’ll let you hear for yourself.

By: Todd Essig

Todd Essig — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:51:28 +0000

So glad you included “evil” among the gmail descriptors. When I see a gmail address its like I’m watching someone trying to pretend their lover is not cheating on them!

By: Emily Rauhala

Emily Rauhala — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:00:28 +0000

Fascinating! The class dimensions of cyberspace never cease to amaze me.

By: John Sellers

John Sellers — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:26:06 +0000

Aw, cute. Do you still hear “You got mail!” when you sign in to your AOL account? Or did they phase that out at the turn of the century?

By: john

john — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:26:09 +0000

So true. My older brother still uses aol and I can’t figure out how to tell him that it’s not cool without him taking it personally. Gmails technology is much better also.

By: rob p

rob p — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:50:14 +0000

Sorry – I should clarified with “many users” rather than implying “all”. You certainly aren’t out of the loop, especially tech-wise. (Note I have a 11 year old yahoo email address that apparently isn’t considered very status worthy either.)

I think the coolest aol’s would be the first ones where you could have chose your first name (tech guy on radio show I remember hearing a couple years ago was lawrence@aol.com)

By: andreaitis

andreaitis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17:23 +0000

I think the hottest email address is the personal domain. That says savvy + power. Gmail is for those too lazy to go for the personal domain. Always, though — no matter what domain — the actual name is what says most about a person. Straightforward first dot last name? Creative play with words or letters? Don’t tell me you don’t connect that to personality.
Special note to @robp: I have and still (gasp!) use my aol email address. I’m stubbornly nostalgic about it and I’m convinced it will one day be considered retro.

By: SteveInTransit

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:31 +0000

@kashhill Migrating is tough- I have > a half dozen active email addresses, and my Hotmail account is for the people who won’t update! Essentially, Hotmail is receive only.
OTOH, I still use Hotmail as spam bait.