Disposable email address
A temporary mailbox from a throwaway provider, used to sign up without giving a real address.
Throwaway providers such as Mailinator hand out addresses that live minutes or days. They inflate sign-up numbers, never convert and later bounce. Public lists of these domains exist; some typo domains of popular providers (gmial.com) are on them too, because someone registered them to catch misdirected mail.
Related terms
- Hard bounce: A permanent delivery failure: the address or its domain does not exist or refuses mail.
