Comments on: In search of the world’s most ridiculous email address

By: Richard Cosgrave

Richard Cosgrave — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:09:48 +0000

Returning to the odd address theme…Some years ago, if you sent an MP a message via the “House of Commons WebSite Constituency Locata Service” you could opt to receive a copy of the text you had typed. The automated sender quoted a ‘from’ address of :

informix(at)beast (dot)whereonearth(dot)com .

It just said so much about the House of Commons really.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:25:40 +0000

I used to have pete@[major Belgian ISP].be which was cool, but it attracted a ton of spam – I lost it when I left the country in 2005.

I also have a nice short email address I use for redirection to other mailboxes that I read:
pete [at] mono . org

By: pendle

pendle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:00:01 +0000

A while ago I had a fad for strange addresses. I’ve got bornag at in dot com (write it down!); davros at who dot net, and one or two others. I’m really pleased with my short address which is abc at d dot ef (not the real letters), probably the shortest you can have. Sadly I don’t own the domain, or I could retire.

By: disque dur externe

disque dur externe — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:47:13 +0000

I like my friends email id. Its like get(first name last name)@aol.com. I am still trying to get such types of email id.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:24:58 +0000

I got my brother (his initials)@well.com, so that’s 12 characters in total, and a mate has his first name at the same ISP, for a total of 13 characters. Well is part of Salon.com these days and has a small and very californian user base, so short names are still available – or were, until I pointed this out.

I shan’t mention the esteemed journalist who managed to register w*nk*r.com back in the early days and who had ‘helmut’ as his user name and therefore, email address…

By: Mack

Mack — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:58:10 +0000

My wife has her firstname@iol.ie. Her firstname is just 3 letters long so it’s very short (10 characters total!)

By: Rhidian

Rhidian — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:46:26 +0000

I can confirm to Colin (post 2) that they weren’t “apparently random”- they were random. I was (I think-memory going:) “cku910@unn.ac.uk”. Genius (still, I suppose it stopped spam). More brilliantly was the fact that- as our mail was hosted on a VAX/VMS system- you had to be REALLY on the ball managing your email because you could only compress your mail file if you had more than 50% of your allocated space free which seemed an odd way to do it (I think it was possible to back up your email to floppy disk but this possibly involved a KERMIT connection to the server).

By: David Bradbury

David Bradbury — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:40:49 +0000

My email address is info @ something (not saying in this forun) .info
The biggest problem is that most websites wont allow this as as they only seems to allow .com or .something.uk so I end up resorting to a btinternet webmail address.

By: PR

PR — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:12:28 +0000

Mine is simply firstname@surname.co.uk as I have the domain registered. However, some people just can’t comprehend this and tell me I’ve got it wrong.

By: Tim Danton

Tim Danton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:32:19 +0000

@Alan – that prompted a colleague of mine to forward me this URL: http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/unfortunate-email-address-cci/

Incidentally, despite a couple of people emailing me direct with their very short email addresses, Matt Russell above is currently the proud owner of the shortest working email address… that I know of.