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View Poll Results: Email address?
Worldwide domain (e.g. MSN, Yahoo, Gmail) 16 69.57%
ISP (e.g. @comcast, @verizon, @shaw, etc.) 1 4.35%
Vanity (e.g. @coolcat, @<yournamehere>) 2 8.70%
Other email site 4 17.39%
Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-06-2012, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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What's your primary email address domain? And why?
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Old 03-06-2012, 11:48 PM
 
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I have several.

9 personal or business accounts - Gmail - cause gmail is the best free mail solution IMO
1 corporate account - my company's exchange server, which I manage
2 corporate accounts - my parents' awards business, @theirdomain.com
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Old 03-07-2012, 12:27 AM
 
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I have a couple from different sources, why? because spam loves me.
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Old 03-07-2012, 01:27 AM
 
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2 @ gmail.com (personal email + spam email)
1 @ hotmail.com (old personal email)
1 @ princeton.edu (my school email)
4 @ [mybusiness].com (my work emails)
1 @ me.com (public email)

I use them all fairly frequently... it's hard to pick a primary. I'd probably put one my gmail.com accounts or my princeton.edu account as primary.

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Old 03-07-2012, 01:31 AM
 
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The primary domain for my email is the one I use daily, why? because I want to.
I get enough spam without advertising.
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Old 03-07-2012, 05:51 AM
 
Location: Wandering.
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For home/ personal use it's
me @ my personal domain

We realized a number of years ago that we weren't going to keep any particular ISP, and using free email wasn't for us, so we got a personal domain for the specific function of never having to change email addresses again.


For business use

me @ my business domain << I have 5 or 6 different domains for different service areas.
I also have a client that requires that I have a company email

me @ my client's domain



For anyone that might spam me, things like facebook, or a few rare things that I only want to go to my phone,

me @ gmail
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Old 03-07-2012, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Tyler, TX
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I currently own 46 domains, and I have literally hundreds of email addresses... but if I had to pick, my primaries would be my business email, followed by myname.tld, then a free service (like hotmail/yahoo/etc) and then gmail. I only use the gmail because it's tied to my android phone. The free one I've had since the mid '90s, and it's just tied to too many things to get rid of.
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Old 03-07-2012, 11:13 AM
 
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Our main email is gmail because we are planning on a move in the not too distant future and the ones tied to our ISP will go away. We have been weaning those people/businesses we want to continue hearing from to those accounts and anyone else will be sending email to non-existent accounts after we move.

I no longer have business email accounts since I closed it when I retired. I still have a netscape email addy that I've had forever and it's the one I use for responses I'm not inrterested in or possible spam.

There are a few others floating around that I rarely use, but check on once in a while.
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Old 03-12-2012, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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Overwhelmingly a worldwide domain. I too use Gmail mostly.

I ask, because I know many people in my group which uses the email addresses provided by their ISP. In Canada, I see @shaw.ca and @telus.net quite a bit.
I could sign up for 10 ISP email address if I want, but Gmail is my master. :P
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Old 03-12-2012, 08:27 PM
 
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.edu because I'm a college student
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