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 moldgravy@mydomain.com.
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 the exact same thing, except instead of paying monthly for hosting, I pay $12/year for addy.io. Super reliable service and I can easily manage my email aliases with their phone app.
ooh! the cheapskate part of me likes this option!
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
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!
Its my old gmail account.
That’s really poor OPSEC. I just visited your github and found the email, because you have no clue how git works. haveibeenpwned.com shows that this email is in 23 data breaches. Now, I can download the ParkMobile data breach and find your license plate and possibly phone number. If I would have the Slickwraps or Straffic breach then I would also be able to get your address. I can also download Collection #1 and get one or few of your old passwords. Your OPSEC can be broken in few minutes by a random internet stranger.
It’s the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.
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.
Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use
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
Do you understand that if someone would find this email, then they would be able to get an incredible amount of information about you from data breaches?
From me as a kid with my totally accurate information I put in, sure.
It’s my Hotmail account
Same. The sweep feature is great for things from online shops I haven’t unsubscribed from yet.
It was the coolest name from the random generator
I use Port87, so my junk email is just part of my real email, which is my name.
ELI5?
It uses mandatory subaddressing, so my email hperrin@port87.com, doesn’t get through. Whatever I sign up for, I add a dash to organize it. So, if I sign up for Netflix, I use hperrin-netflix@port87.com, then that goes to my Netflix folder. If they start spamming, I block that address. And for real people, I have an address that screens email, hperrin-friends@port87.com.
I see! Thanks for explaining
It’s my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I’m talking “NekoOniBakaChan_xx@wtf.com” levels of cringe.
Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.
My what now?
Just made up a fake name
It’s one word off from an Alice in Wonderland quote
I often use proton for junk mails as it does not require phone or something and a lot of services accept it compared to the normal trash mail services.
Another thing i do is searching for the sender of annoying mails, mark like 10 of them and mark them as spam, then the next ones get dumped too
