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Ask HN: What TLD do you use for your personal site and email?

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Post by buttsex »

I'm in the process of moving away from my gmail account and would like a personal domain for my email and website. I already own firstnamelastname.com, the problem is that my first and last name together are really long and I'd like something shorter, for email especially (i.e. me@lastname.com). I'm thinking of getting lastname.co since lastname.com is taken and the guy won't give it up (funny since lastname.com was registered in Colombia and I think he's Colombian). My last name is short so it looks nice. I could come up with some hacky domain names but I like the simplicity of lastname.co

In this day and age, is there any downside to owning a .co TLD (besides typos). I plan to use me@lastname.co for email and I'd like to make some aliases for different services (dropbox@lastname.co, contests@lastname.co). I would host a small blog at the domain name, I don't really promote myself too much, and if you Google my name it would come up at the top any way.

What do you guys use?

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Post by jordsmi »

Currently have a .me for my personal email but am switching to a .com soon.

For which TLD to choose, it really depends on the use case. For just personal email, or if your site is catered to more tech people you can really use anything. If it is being used more for the public I'd be careful because many people don't know things past .com or .net

I often get .co for sites and it usually works fine, but sometimes I've seen non tech savvy people mistake it as a typo and send emails to the .com version

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#7

Post by jordsmi »

emsy wrote: post #3

I use an .email TLD. Quite long and most people don't know it yet but for dedicated email usage it fits quite well.

Only problem I've seen with these newer TLD's is sometimes on shittier made sites they deny it as being a valid email. Heck, even my .me domain gets denied as being a valid email and that's been around for awhile now.

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Post by bramgg »

I use the .gg TLD. My personal site is bram.gg and my email is hello@bram.gg

.gg is my favorite TLD, and the most underrated. It's expensive enough that the domain you want probably isn't taken, but cheap enough that it's worth the price if it's something you care about. "gg" is also a common phrase in gaming subculture, meaning "good game".

Quick plug, if you're looking for a quick and fun domain for your personal email, check out my open source project Hipster Domain Finder[0]. You can use it to find some pretty awesome short domain hacks and it even allows you to sort by TLD.

[0] http://www.hipsterdomainfinder.com

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#9

Post by emsy »

jordsmi wrote: post #7
emsy wrote: post #3

I use an .email TLD. Quite long and most people don't know it yet but for dedicated email usage it fits quite well.

Only problem I've seen with these newer TLD's is sometimes on shittier made sites they deny it as being a valid email. Heck, even my .me domain gets denied as being a valid email and that's been around for awhile now.

I've never noticed it, because I use free email services for registrations. My .email address is for professional and personal use.
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