Email hacks
Wikipedia’s deleted articles are usually junk, but I found an exception - it was an interesting article on email hacks, a non-notable neologism by Wikipedia’s standards, but still worth rescuing for the Internet Wikia. An email hack is defined as “an unconventional email address that uses the commercial at symbol (”@”) as the letter “a” in the construction of a email address title.”
It inspired me to buy the domain nge.la, which gives me the email address
, which in theory can be read as “wikiangela”. a.nge.la also redirects to this site, but I have a feeling that many people wouldn’t even recognise it as a valid URL and would just think I was writing my name in a very odd way. Does that seem true or am I not giving people enough credit for recognising that not every domain ends in .com? :)




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[[meta:user:walter]] said,
September 11, 2006 at 7:08
You are correct. Many people do not know anything else besides .com and there country TLD. Even many webforms will not except an emailadres from a less know TLD, and that is even .info many times
[[en:user:Gary Kirk]] said,
September 14, 2006 at 1:33
I must say when I saw you change your email address on your userpage, I didn’t “get it” and thought maybe it was some sort of new spam trap.
james_uk said,
September 26, 2006 at 0:41
I think this is a mildly diverting piece of trivia. Good luck with more substantial efforts.
Mark said,
November 11, 2006 at 20:25
Angela, I love it! I think that it is smart. .com - yea most people think of that, but it will be soon enough before the tipping point comes and people understand tld’s.