Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by stevekemp » Thu, May 26, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

herbst wrote: post #23

I have lastname.localtld costs me $15. I think local tlds make much more sense for name domains than generics like .com.

I picked $firstname.$localTLD in 1999, at the time I had to use register.com and I paid $79 a year for about five years. Nowadays the pricing is closer to $10.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by PatentTroll » Thu, May 26, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

I tried lastname.email but had trouble validating the address first@lastname.email at a lot of places. Lucked out though and found a tld with the last two letters of my last name, now I'm first@lastna.me and I think it's slick. Hard as hell to explain to customer service reps that there's no '.com' at the end of it though.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by _RPM » Thu, May 26, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

I paid 10.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by ericzawo » Thu, May 26, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

myname .com was several hundred(?) so i moved to myname.co and it's about 11$/year.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by a_lifters_life » Thu, May 26, 2016, 6:25 PM UTC

$11/yr

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by sheraz » Thu, May 26, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

I'm lucky. Exotic name. And I've had it for 10+ years. $10/year

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by yagyu » Thu, May 26, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

~$12/year for jonaseinarsson.se and .com (it wasn't taken)

Semi-common name in Sweden.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by keviv » Thu, May 26, 2016, 10:46 PM UTC

FirstnameLastname.com was taken so I registered firstname-lastname.com ($8 back then). Though, I'd waited for 3 years for FirstnameLastname.com to expire and when it happened I grabbed it.

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by bbcbasic » Fri, May 27, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

I have a relatively uncommon last name, so I got my domain name at the standard price for a domain name ($11/year at Namecheap)

Re: Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com

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Post by bbcbasic » Fri, May 27, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

Garvey wrote: post #27

£8.10 firstnamelastname.com £4.46 firstnamelastname.co.uk Fairly common firstname, Surname: 18,714th most common surname in the world, Approximately 27,829 people bear this surname

Where did you get the stats?