Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

I raed.it. Good looking website.

$10

I think I just paid the regular .com amount from when I first registered it 10 years or more ago.

My surname also ends in BY so I recently bought a Belorussian domain for it so my website is [firstname].[partofsurname].by and email address is [firstname]@[partofsurname].by

I got it a long time ago, so just ~$10/year for over a decade.

I did once get contacted by one of my dopppelnamers, who happened to be the lead guitarist of an 80's one-hit wonder band (and now solo), but I didn't want to give it up.

I have the .com, but he dominates SEO for our name.

About $50/year on initial registration, but that's because .coms were so expensive then / seemed expensive / didn't find cheaper options.

Then $10 / year. And now $15 / year on a registrar I trust with security a fair bit more.

Reason for a change in paying a little more for a much better (perceived, at least) service was I started getting mails from someone with the (almost same) name suggesting I 'give' him my domain name (and Twitter, and Gmail, and LinkedIn, etc). Give him. As 'I was not using it'. Despite having it as primary email address for ~15 years and a small placeholder page for namecard, logins, ssh, personal projects, cloud hosting, etc. Persistent, timed emails, every 6 months or so. And he was in SEO so perhaps somewhat cluefull of dark arts, so move to a non-cheapest registrar.

If you're on the reverse, check your registrar is providing a secure service, for example passwords not (or seeming to be, based on login hints), in plain text.