Domain Admins: your policy on email names?

[axelfox]

For those of you who administer the emails for domains, what is the email name policy that you have implemented? For instance, do you use initials only (jd@abc.com)? Or first name initial or last name (jdoe@abc.com)?

I've heard the shorter the better. I've also heard to at least use the first name like john@abc.com or johndoe@abc.com because when you meet people and introduce yourself, it's easier to remember the first name with regards to the email you give out.

Thoughts?

 

[Corporate Thug]

I was always told that name of first initial + last name is best : jdoe@abc.com

 

[edtsui]

firstname.lastname

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: axelfox
For those of you who administer the emails for domains, what is the email name policy that you have implemented? For instance, do you use initials only (jd@abc.com)? Or first name initial or last name (jdoe@abc.com)?

I've heard the shorter the better. I've also heard to at least use the first name like john@abc.com or johndoe@abc.com because when you meet people and introduce yourself, it's easier to remember the first name with regards to the email you give out.

Thoughts?

i think it depends on the size of the organization

small > jason@ john@

medium > jking@ jdoe@

large > jason.king@ johndoe@


really though, its your preference. but with a larger organization you probably want to stick with john.doe

 

[newb111]

Depends on how many employees you have. When you start having 1000 of employees, you need longer names to differentiate.

 

[Vehemence]

Mine's at first initial + last name. Previous job I worked with it at first.last, had more employees.

 

[njmodi]

Definitely either jdoe@doman.com, or john.doe@domain.com... where i work right now, both actually work and are routed to the same email account... the one i share with people and on my card is the firstname.lastname@domain.com format...

firstname@domain.com is only possible in very small organizations - you end up with too many non-unique combos - same is true for jdoe@domain.com depending on size of company...

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

Yes...more professional imho.

 

[DaveJ]

We let the users pick their own username/email alias, within reason.

Our account creation app looks at the user's info (first/middle/last name) and gives them a choice from a list of potential combos based on that info. So users might end up with j.q.public@domain.com, john.public@domain.com, or something along those lines. We have this system in place for approx. 10,000 users and it's worked very well so far. It gives the users more options from a predefined set of "approved" variants, and it's diverse enough so there aren't many issues with addresses that are slightly different.

 

[MotionMan]

I have a friend who use to work at Microsoft. What they did was first name plus as much of your last name was is needed. So, if you are the first Kevin to ever work at MS, you got kevin@microsoft.com. If you were the second Kevin with a last name starting with T and your last name was Trick, you could get kevintr@microsoft.com.

I do not know if they still do that.


When I was in law school, the school gave out e-mail addresses using first initial plus the first 7 letters of your last name. I had a friend who had an 8 letter last name, so people got his e-mail address wrong all the time (jblowblow@school.edu vs. jblowblo@school.edu).

MotionMan

 

[Baked]

System wide is first.last@company

Dept wide is first initial.last@dept.company

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Baked
System wide is first.last@company

Dept wide is first initial.last@dept.company

can not understand why anyone would have a environment like that...

 

[TwiceOver]

firstinit+lastname@domain.com

firstname@domain.com is just asking to be spammed.

 

[daveshel]

I have about 4200 users.
The primary SMTP address is first.last@...
The secondary is firstinitiallastname@...

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

I'm not a domain admin, but as part of a humongous company, that's how we all have our emails. Even with that, we have some people who (would) have the same email address, so end up with firstname.middleinitial.lastname.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: Baked
System wide is first.last@company

Dept wide is first initial.last@dept.company

can not understand why anyone would have a environment like that...

Big big big company + bureaucracy = fail.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

That's the naming convention used with all my corporate email addresses. :thumbsup:

I don?t see how doing it any other way would make sense.

Perhaps some people are getting confused with usernames and email addresses?

 

[KeithTalent]

Ours are first_last@domain.com

It's stupid, I would rather have the . in there instead.

KT

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

That's the naming convention used with all my corporate emails addresses. :thumbsup:

I don?t see how doing it any other way would make sense.

Perhaps some people are getting confused with usernames and emails addresses?

How closed-minded of you to say.

MotionMan

 

[E equals MC2]

firstnamelastname

no period, space or underscore.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname

That's the naming convention used with all my corporate emails addresses. :thumbsup:

I don?t see how doing it any other way would make sense.

Perhaps some people are getting confused with usernames and emails addresses?

How closed-minded of you to say.

MotionMan

If you say so, kid.

 

[buck]

jblow@company.com here
Medium sized company.

 

[wheresmybacon]

Originally posted by: edtsui
firstname.lastname