Study Finds NearlyOne-Third of Email Addresses Change Each Year
Don’t be surprised if you can’t find a friend or colleague online. A new study indicates that 31% of email addresses change each year.
Don’t be surprised if you can’t find a friend or colleague online. A new study indicates that 31% of email addresses change each year.
Seeing a lot of email from “postmaster” with the word “undeliverable” in the subject line? Don’t take it personally: According to a new study, 31% of email addresses change annually. As a result, more than half of the owners of those addresses lose touch with personal and professional contacts, as well as preferred Web sites.
E-mail address turnover is driven by ISP switching, job changes and consumer efforts to avoid SPAM, according to the survey, which also found that young people are significantly more likely to lose email contacts than older individuals. Fifty-three percent of young adults lost email contacts, compared to 42% of older people.
The study, conducted by research firm NFO WorldGroup, found that half of all Web site relationships are lost due to email address changes. While consumers, on average, registered their email address with more than twelve Web sites, according to the study, email address changers only notified about six Web sites of the change. And 22% of those who changed an email address did not notify any Web site about the change.
The study was commissioned by Global Name Registry, license operator of the .name top-level domain, and by Return Path Inc., which provides an e mail change of address service. Return Path processes more than one million consumer-registered email address changes each month, according to the company. It is the email change of address service for the United States Postal Service’s online moving portal.
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