Have domain name, need email name

• So I picked a domain name, but can't decide what to name my e-mail address. I am trying to use a "user friendly" methodology for an e-mail address to accompany my personal domain. [email protected] seems redundant, and deciding between mail@, or email@ makes my head go in circles. I never thought this would perplex me as it does.

• Answer:

  When you own a domain, don't use just one email address. As soon as the spammers get it, you lose. Rather, use custom emails per sender. That is, say you start a relationship with Company A, you give them [email protected] as a contact address. You either configure the catch-all to point to you, or you manually add that address to a redirect table to you. The manual approach will work better, and I suggest you invest the extra minute or two per contact, because spammers WILL hit your domain with random emails. Screening out the bad ones is much, much harder than just enumerating the good ones. This single thing alone will cut down your spam load tremendously, because if a name gets polluted, you can A) be pretty sure who sold you out, and B) disable that address, without messing up any of the others. TRUST ME, you want to do this. It is so, so worth it. And you can only do it properly right when you first start with a domain, so you're in the perfect spot to implement it. If you don't do this, you WILL regret it. I guarantee it.