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Which companies are those? Is there a list somewhere? The only time I ever encountered this was with AliExpress.


Did that change? My AliExpress account is using myname@mydomain.co.uk


I don’t know, I registered some time last year. Maybe it’s also the TLD? I have .me.


I've got a first@last.family. My dentist and several large companies refuse to accept this as a valid email address, so I have to use an email that doesn't identify me personally by name (uses efreak instead of my name). This annoys me every time I deal with them, especially since some of these sites use my email address as a username. I've been locked out from logging in on other devices a couple times for trying too many passwords when the problem was the address, not the password.


From memory, AliExpress wouldn't accept aliexpress@mydomain.com, but ali_express@mydomain.com was fine.


Interesting, so maybe I should have used a different prefix. Weird design.


I don't recall. I've only encountered it once or twice.




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