Domain Email VS Whatever Email

[Gizmo]

When owning your site do you use an email from your domain name or your whatever email such as hotmail, gmail etc?

I use my personal for my actual account but usually board@suchandsuch for the actual board email account.

 

[Nebulous]

I use gmail for my forums contact email so if the site is experiencing downtime, I can still access email and communicate with staff and members who want to know what is going on.

 

[Grumpy]

I use gmail for my forums contact email so if the site is experiencing downtime, I can still access email and communicate with staff and members who want to know what is going on.

Email forwarding FTW.

I always use domain emails, I find it to be much more professional than using a free email service and also find that members will think higher of your site if you use a domain email and make yourself look more professional.

 

[Slix]

I use a MobileMe (Apple's online service) with [site]@me.com currently. Once I bother to get the emails set up for my site, I'll use that instead.

 

[Justin]

Personally many sites on FP come and go so I don't think their domain e-mails are really a safe bet for future contact. I say stick will a true email provider such as gmail. If you have something serious such as a job inquire, then the employer would most likely want to e-mail you at an address he/she thinks is reliable. I wouldn't e-mail someone if it was [email protected] :shrug:

 

[Fergal]

...I always use domain emails, I find it to be much more professional than using a free email service and also find that members will think higher of your site if you use a domain email and make yourself look more professional.

I agree with that and have often considered setting up an @businessadviceforum.com email address for myself, however I do have concerns that the domain name is too long to be user-friendly.

 

[el canadiano]

I use them both. Forward all of it towards my Gmail anyways, so it doesn't really matter.