Why do some large companies use a different domain for sending emails?

Posted by Andrei Rinea on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Andrei Rinea
Published on 2012-02-08T06:16:37Z Indexed on 2012/11/14 23:21 UTC
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I've received notifications and newsletters from Microsoft and Facebook in the past and noticed that both emails came not from an address such as [email protected] or [email protected].

Not event [email protected] but both had different domains such as :

[email protected] and [email protected]

Why is this? Any particular advantage in doing so?

Other than not polluting the employees email software, I can't see.

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