: What is the best email address for a personal website with my name as the .com domain name? I convinced one of my creative friends to finally purchase his own name as a domain name and start

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There is no 'best email address'. There are only options, with little to separate them beyond personal preference.

me@example.com and hello@example.com are both popular, although generic addresses carry slight disadvantages over named addresses such as yourname@example.com, namely:


A generic address may attract more spam than an address using a name (because spammers tend to target common catch-all and enquiry addresses like hello@example.com). This may not be a problem if your friend has good spam protection, like Gmail's.
A generic address may be blocked from mailing lists that your friend wants to join (because popular newsletter services like MailChimp reject addresses that sound like they might forward mail to multiple recipients, such as support@example.com and hello@example.com)


For those reasons, it's probably best to use name@example.com even though it would repeat the name, or initials@example.com if you feel uncomfortable with the repetition for some reason.

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