Have you heard about domain shame? Do you, perhaps, even suffer from domain shame? Or maybe you are one of the legions of users who identify those who should suffer from domain shame?

The term “domain shame,” recently coined by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Don Fernandez, refers to how you feel about and how others perceive that bit to the right of the “@” symbol in your e-mail address.

For example, according to Fernandez, if your e-mail address is at yahoo.com, people are as likely to think that e-mail from you is spam, or even porn, as not. “When I said I was on Yahoo!, people would not respond because just the name meant it was unsafe and too commercial” Fernandez quotes one user as saying.

Said another, “When I see a Yahoo! or Hotmail domain, I think not only cheap, but also disposable and possibly porno, because of the anonymity of those domains.”

Security experts seem to agree. Dmitri Alperovitch of Internet security firm CipherTrust explained that …

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