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Just opened Quora to see if my user was still there:

User name: Alsfkj Alskfjaslkfj

E-mail Quora probably sends weekly e-mails: alsfkj@x.com

(sorry if any of you owns x.com)

This is a good place to use alsfkj@example.com

With example.com (which cannot be registered) you know you are not potentially smacking around the domain of a poor company

I usually use the site's own domain -- so a fake account on quora gets an @quora.com domain.

I do that too! I felt bad for the postmaster at fuckyou.com. It's weird but this technique has not yet been rejected, whereas mailinator gets rejected all the time.

Hah! That is brilliant, love that idea, there is a certain sense of poetic justice.

eBay is not exactly a poor company (current owners of x.com for some completely bizarre reason)

I did say potentially

In this case no it is not a small company, but I have seen people sign up to things with random email addresses that did map to small-time company domains.

Just be a nice guy, avoid the risk and use example.com is what I am trying to say.

x.com was originally PayPal, so eBay owns the domain once they acquired them.

Somewhere in Nigeria there's a legitimate Pfizer sales rep who's having a heck of a time getting his emails delivered.

eBay owns x.com

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