In the process of configuring my new Macbook the system auto-prompts for you to create a trial .Mac account – which of course includes a nice shiny new email address. Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against an @mac.com email account it just made me pause and think about the number of email addresses I have / have had.
- School
- Personal Domain
- Hotmail
- MSN
- Yahoo
- Excite
- Yahoo x2
- Gmail
This doesn’t factor in the Companies I have worked for, the Companies I own, our current customers or the various aliases active across each domain. Looking in my domain registration account the other day I have over 100 domains registered currently.
When I look at tools like Plaxo that only associate three (3) email addresses with a contact I just laugh.