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by avree 1069 days ago
Other examples of Stubhub e-mails include "fieldmilestone" and "rolodexinfo". I believe that Stubhub is using old domains, probably from some list that their registrar is providing them. Sometimes, there are blocks of patterns, such as the color/etc. one - but they're probably doing this to avoid getting spam-filtered by people's mail clients, not to try to hide from Ticketmaster or anything else, and I doubt the naming is something they are defining.
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All the ones I've seen are quite recent, 2023 creation dates. Your "fieldmilestone" is one such.

Obviously they're not literally all the color+feature+company pattern but I don't think they're just reusing old "real" domains either.

As for not getting spam filtered, using a big pile of new domains with no web presence probably has the reverse effect so I don't think that's the intention here. Also I think as it's described, these emails aren't really sending messages to people, they're there to receive emails from Ticketmaster or similar entities when you go to transfer though them.