More shortened email options
I was offered shortened @pm.me email option.
I have to refuse it.
First reason is, it does not look trustworthy.
Given that I was offered it only after paying for it by default, means only limited amount of people were ever exposed to it, so it does have limited to none brand recognition. If I were to use it, many people would by default think I am trying to scam them. Same goes for "pm" part as well as ".me" part, it sounds cute, until you try to get into shoes of the receiver that is trying to decide if what he is getting is a scam and .me does not sound legitimate. One of my business friends mentioned to me that she had to make herself @gmail.com acc simply because if she doesn't contact some of her clients with gmail.com, they will assume it is a scam and will not reply to her offers. Now shorten already low recognition brand of @protonmail.com into @pm.me and congratulations, people will even more likely ignore you or flag you as a scam. To have to pay for the opportunity to be ignored is just strange.
Second reason is, how you spell that.
So what I do right now when I am communicating my email looks like this:
- ...@protonmail.com (people just know how to write .com and mail)
- what, protonmail.com? How do you spell that?
- I know, not well known, they are about privacy, proton, like in atom, mail, protonmail, together, dot, com.
- protonmail.com?
- Yes, that is correct.
Now how my new conversation would look like:
- ...@pm.me
- Mmm, pi em dot me e or p m dot m e?
- p m dot m e.
- dot m e.
- Yes.
- Ok.
While before it was "you are not well known", it would turn into "how do you spell that?". Ok for me, I just know, not so great for other people. And what you spell means nothing. It could be at least pmail, like gmail or proton.com (I would prefer that), because that would make sense and everyone would just get it, pm is just why google never went @gm.com route, it sounds like a dm (direct message) joke. Even funnier one would be @p.me, now try to say that out loud.
So, I would prefer if I get to shorten email, original one is quite long, probably why there is no @googlemail.com, but it should sound more legitimate and end on one of the: .com, .org or country ending (in my case .si, Germany would have .de, Poland .pl and so on), because those endings sound more legit and people already know how to write them, they are well known. It would ease in-person communication and lower the possibility to be flagged as a scam.
Aljaž
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[Deleted User]
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I think @protonmail.ch is so sexy :-), hope that the long append will stay forever.
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J.
commented
Maybe @proton.com? Anyway, great idea!
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Anonymous
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like this
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Martin Hill
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Use your own domain.
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Anonymous
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This feature has been requested by others users. For ...@pm.com or ...@pm.ch. currently that request has 700 votes.
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anonymous
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What about @proton.ch?
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AnonUser
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I would have to agree with User, Pmail sounds funny to me. if you have to shorten it, call it ProMail. However, I like Proton as well.
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Anonymous
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pmail is already used by the older email client Pegasus Mail
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Enzo
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I like promoting protonmail, but again. Something shorter is better. It's just hard, unless they want to buy something already from somebody who owns a domain.
Pmail is Pegasus, which has been around for ever. They might have luck with promail as suggested or something else.
I have a feeling this would cost a lot of money to buy a domain from somebody who wants to sell it
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Anonymous
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Or @promail.com
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alias000
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Bring your own domain over and problem solved :-)
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L
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Just like when Google started with the Gmail service, back then it was @googlemail, which is not so good compared with the short @gmail name.
What if ProtonMail stars something like "@pmail.com"? -
Anonymous
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Proton does have a strong sound to it. Leave it!
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M
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I agree, the name is good, but a little too long. Should create at least an abbreviation to use as a kind of alias. Something like pm.com or protm.com would be better.
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Nuno
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I think the name is good and catchy, actually. I still remember when "Gmail" appeared: "what a hell of a name is that?"
How about "Yahoo!"? Also a very professional and business-appropriate name, hem? :) -
TU
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I agree that the domain name should be something simple and short and protonmail.com doesn't sound very good.
If you want short email address you can buy/use email forwarding services like www.iki.fi => @iki.fi addresses.
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User
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Pmail would have some unfortunate connotations in English if pronounced phonetically.
P makes a sound that is the same as the word "pee", which means "urine".
This presents obvious social difficulties with using your account as a general purpose email address for obvious reasons. :)
@protonmail.com is fine. If a shorten name is desired by some, please at least choose something other than pmail. :)
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Anonymous
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please change the name "protomail'. its hard to use something@protonmail.com as a work or business email address. anyone can use gmail as their work mail cause its short and catchy. protonmail doesn't sound good in a work related conversation. i know cause i tried. people were looking like wtf is that! you can add some short allies like smail or something.
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Anonymous
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ProtonmaiI is too long, Pmail (similar to gmail and ymail) on the other hand would be a lot simpler, quicker and easier to remember