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April 1, 2014 4:20:40 PM

Hello Community,

A company I work for has its email domain @LastnameAnimalBreed.com. My actual last name is in the address (Family Business). I've seen a lot of companies do the following: firstname.lastname@company.com I wouldn't mind having other employees do the same, but for me or owners I wasn't sure if it comes as redundant.

It would come out as the following: firstname.lastname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Since my last name is already in the last half of the email would this be better? firstname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Wouldn't it imply my last name?

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April 1, 2014 4:25:50 PM

So this is a hardware or software related problem? I think not. If you want to have email addresses like that, just do it. If it later seems a dumb idea then try something else. Ask your employees for their input.
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April 1, 2014 5:00:45 PM

When you leave the company, @LastNameAnimalBreed.com will be problematic, unless there will always be a Smith there.

Joe@SmithPoodle.com will be wrong when Joe Smith leaves. Unless www.SmithPoodle.com is your actual domain name.
However, getting poodle.com is not going to happen.
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April 2, 2014 9:50:56 AM

dcompart said:
Hello Community,

A company I work for has its email domain @LastnameAnimalBreed.com. My actual last name is in the address (Family Business). I've seen a lot of companies do the following: firstname.lastname@company.com I wouldn't mind having other employees do the same, but for me or owners I wasn't sure if it comes as redundant.

It would come out as the following: firstname.lastname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Since my last name is already in the last half of the email would this be better? firstname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Wouldn't it imply my last name?

Way overthinking things here. What is the convention in current use? That's what you should be using. What comes to the right of the "@" is of no relevance here. Addresses should be uniform across the enterprise.
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April 3, 2014 11:59:56 AM

dcompart said:
Hello Community,

A company I work for has its email domain @LastnameAnimalBreed.com. My actual last name is in the address (Family Business). I've seen a lot of companies do the following: firstname.lastname@company.com I wouldn't mind having other employees do the same, but for me or owners I wasn't sure if it comes as redundant.

It would come out as the following: firstname.lastname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Since my last name is already in the last half of the email would this be better? firstname@LastnameAnimalBreed.com

Wouldn't it imply my last name?


The only thing the domain name implies is that it is one organization. Whenever I see a "joe@Smith-poodle.com", I don't think the person's name is "Joe Smith"; I simply think he is in an organization/business that is still small enough to use only first names.

Most of the time business standards are first.last@domain.com, first initial + lastname @ domain.com, or even first name + lastname initial @domain.com. The only reason you do this is so that you can uniquely identify the individual. The bigger the business, the higher chance that you will have two individuals with some type of identical names (same first name, for example). The more unique parts to the name that is in the email address, the less you have to worry about duplicate name parts.
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