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Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #87
rolenthedeep wrote: post #81

I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. Not sure what I expected, really. After some years I randomly checked with my favorite registrar, and it was suddenly available for $15/yr. Immediately grabbed that, no regrets. A couple of years ago, I got a series of emails from some broker…

I admire your decisiveness on the email branding. I own a few domains I could use for such a thing, but I'm still trying to figure out the best local-part. Consider the possibilities! Sure, you could go classic and timeless, like yours, with FirstName@. But what about cool and terse, like initial@firstnamelastname.com? Or something unique and artisanal (that will hopefully never get old), like io@firstnamelastname.co…

For long names I'd suggest the [a-z][0-9][a-z].tld abbreviated form. Those three char domains with a digit tend to be readily available, don't command premium pricing, and are very convenient when you need to type an address in or verbally tell someone how to contact you.

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

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Post by jcparkyn »

garganzol wrote: post #54
evanmoran wrote: post #43

Curious for fellow founders with the .com, how many of you defensively buy the .net, .org names as well? I find it hard to resist getting at least those three if I'm settled on a name/brand.

Those specific additional domains are useful in their own ways. .net is good for network infrastructure, .org is good for organizational purposes like mapping your office/LAN endpoints into it, so that employees could connect to VPNs and internal services like SCM and build servers. Other than that, additional domains also give leverage for diversification if you decide to make them publicly visitable one day.

> .net is good for network infrastructure, .org is good for organizational purposes

Genuine question: Is there any tangible/technical benefit to this, or is it just for the sake of keeping them organised?

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

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Post by jb1991 »

querez wrote: post #34

Slightly off-topic, but: Gandi was my registrar of choice, but I read some months ago that they've sold out. Who do people go to these days for registering domain names?

What do you mean by sold out? Maybe I don’t understand the phrasing, surely you don’t mean they’ve sold out of all their domains!

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

#104

Post by ehPReth »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #87
rolenthedeep wrote: post #81

I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. Not sure what I expected, really. After some years I randomly checked with my favorite registrar, and it was suddenly available for $15/yr. Immediately grabbed that, no regrets. A couple of years ago, I got a series of emails from some broker…

I admire your decisiveness on the email branding. I own a few domains I could use for such a thing, but I'm still trying to figure out the best local-part. Consider the possibilities! Sure, you could go classic and timeless, like yours, with FirstName@. But what about cool and terse, like initial@firstnamelastname.com? Or something unique and artisanal (that will hopefully never get old), like io@firstnamelastname.co…

that's been a big thinker for me as well; wth no real solution yet..

first@firstlast.example seem rather redundant; like saying "John John Doe". I guess if it was a business it would make more sense; like "John, owner of John Doe Inc." and "Bob, assistant for John Doe Inc." but for a personal domain... eh.

Similarly mail@ email@ seem 'too obvious' since.. of course it's email? Directional local parts like talkto@ to@ only make sense for inbound-only or outbound-only.

I do like io@! hello@, contact@, note@, or communique@ also seem more neutral but at this point I'm getting dizzy lol.

first@last.example seems more simple in retrospect but also harder to get.

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

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Post by ehPReth »

slig wrote: post #72
ryan29 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was trying to decide this a few years ago when I found the best .com I'll ever own. It's only 8 characters and I was able to get matching social media handles everywhere but Twitter. My main concern was that someone with more money than me could come along, start using it, trademark it, and make it unusable for me. I've been thinking about trying to trademark it, but it's expensive and complicated, especially if I…

>My main concern was that someone with more money than me could come along, start using it, trademark it, and make it unusable for me. This happened recently with substack.net.

I hope substack.com doesn't pull a shit move on substack.net like nissanusa.com tried on nissan.com

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

#106

Post by sdrothrock »

ehPReth wrote: post #104
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I admire your decisiveness on the email branding. I own a few domains I could use for such a thing, but I'm still trying to figure out the best local-part. Consider the possibilities! Sure, you could go classic and timeless, like yours, with FirstName@. But what about cool and terse, like initial@firstnamelastname.com? Or something unique and artisanal (that will hopefully never get old), like io@firstnamelastname.co…

that's been a big thinker for me as well; wth no real solution yet.. first@firstlast.example seem rather redundant; like saying "John John Doe". I guess if it was a business it would make more sense; like "John, owner of John Doe Inc." and "Bob, assistant for John Doe Inc." but for a personal domain... eh. Similarly mail@ email@ seem 'too obvious' since.. of course it's email? Directional local parts like talkto@ to@…

How about something like me@firstlast.com?

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

#107

Post by MivLives »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #87
rolenthedeep wrote: post #81

I am the proud owner of my own firstnamelastname.com When I first ventured into web hosting, the domain was dead, but still registered. I did a whois and got Firstname Lastname. Not sure what I expected, really. After some years I randomly checked with my favorite registrar, and it was suddenly available for $15/yr. Immediately grabbed that, no regrets. A couple of years ago, I got a series of emails from some broker…

I admire your decisiveness on the email branding. I own a few domains I could use for such a thing, but I'm still trying to figure out the best local-part. Consider the possibilities! Sure, you could go classic and timeless, like yours, with FirstName@. But what about cool and terse, like initial@firstnamelastname.com? Or something unique and artisanal (that will hopefully never get old), like io@firstnamelastname.co…

I have a domain hack of my name so I use firstname@firstnamelastna.me

I wish I could get just lastna.me or lastname.com but I share the name with someone who's worked at icann, google and the white house at various points. I never had a shot.

Re: How and why we acquired our .com domain

#108

Post by naet »

arbitrandomuser wrote: post #95
acherion wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many years ago I got mylastname.com for a normal price (like $20 a year or whatever) and then forgot about it. It helps that I have a very unique surname. A few years afterwards, I woke up one morning with the bright idea that I should probably secure mylastname.com in case some jerk off domain name squatter grabs it. I do a whois from the command line (I don't trust the online domain name search sites anymore) and s…

Why are online domain name searche sites untrustworthy ?

Some domain companies will buy the domains you searched and try to resell them for a premium. Happened to me just a few months ago. I was using a GoDaddy search since it seemed like a useful way to bulk search some tlds for what I wanted. Looked up a few things that I'm almost 100% sure nobody else was looking for since they were very unique. Didn't buy them that day, but spent a while browsing them using the GoDaddy search tools.

One day later I decided I was ready and went to buy one, but everything I had searched was suddenly only available to buy jacked up with a huge "premium" fee and seemed to be owned by GoDaddy. Never again will I search using their console.

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