Zach Reidell now holds the world record for Longest Active Email Address, beating Peter Craig’s much-ballyhooed 345-character address. Reidell’s record setting address is 411 characters. Want to send him an email? Go for it!
The active address (confirmed to verify record):
hi-this-is-the-longest-email-in-the-world-and-is-much-superior-to-contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubber-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-at-please-try-to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.this-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-such-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever@zchr.org
PAST RECORD HOLDERS:
Peter Craig – had an email address 100 characters - 13 August 2010
The Email address:
contact-admin-hello-webmaster-info-services-peter-crazy-but-oh-so-ubbe r-cool-english-alphabet-loverer-abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@please-try- to.send-me-an-email-if-you-can-possibly-begin-to-remember-this-coz.thi s-is-the-longest-email-address-known-to-man-but-to-be-honest.this-is-s uch-a-stupidly-long-sub-domain-it-could-go-on-forever.pacraig.com
Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya had an email address 100 characters – 16 July 2010
The Email address: dineshshivnathupadhyayamscmumbai@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefgh
ijk.com
Source: URDB world record for the longest active email address
I think I should also try and make a longer email address than that ha ha…..But I dunno how I will remember it
The biggest advantage of long id is- all usernames and domains are always available