> That's why I bought my email domain and use <domain_name>@hnrobert42.com. It helps to use a password manager.

Whenever there’s this discussion on HN, someone usually points out that can sometimes be a bother, especially when giving out the email in person, because people don’t really understand how email addresses works and ask “how did you get that email” or think you’re impersonating the service, or something similar.

I guess a solution might be to add the details sneakily. E.g. instead of linkedin@hnrobert42.com, saying robert_lkdn@hnrobert42.com

I've done alice@myname.com, bob@myname.com, etc. I don't keep track of them carefully so I may pick the same name for two different sites.

It also makes it easier to pass off a fake realname! Hi I'm John Smith, jsmith@oneofmydomains-nottooobvious.com...

You can even pick a domain sound like a legitimate mail service or company, e.g. jsmith@jgs-consulting.com.or jsmith@liberty-mail.io

All domains and addresses in this comment are fictitious - overlap with real domains is coincidental.

And some sites seem to have it not work. I suspect there’s lazy programmers with hardcoded test cases.

But that’s like 1:100 or so. And usually I’m entering my address to a robot so it’s not an issue.

The weird looks when I tell a shop my e-mail is "name plus sign shopname AT mydomain dot com"