Thoughts on using your real name for a domain?

TidyWorks said:
You can find out someones name, even their address from the url address no matter what it is. Just do a whois check.

http://www.whoischeck.co.uk/
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only if they haven't spent a very small amount of cash to have their whois linked to their domain hosting company.Mine cost around $6 per year to have the registrant info hid.

Here's mine


Registrant:
c/o YOURNAME.NET
P.O. Box 821650
Vancouver, WA 98682
US

Registrar: NAMESDIRECT
Domain Name: YOURNAME.NET
Created on: 09-APR-01
Expires on: 09-APR-12
Last Updated on: 20-MAR-11

Administrative Contact:
[email protected]
c/o YOURNAME.NET
P.O. Box 821650
Vancouver, WA 98682
US
+1.360-449-5933
 
markk said:
Whats the best company to register you domain name - or does it not matter?
I've been meaning to register my surname for years but never got around to it
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Only advice I can give is don't register and host on the same site incase you decide to move it some hosts are very slow to move sites that are bought this way.
 
Dunks said:
Domain renewal tends to cost a lot more than the initial purchase price.
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Um, nope. Unless you use the pathetic letters spam companies send out saying RENEW NOW FOR £50. Alternatively, this can occur if you have an "odd" domain for the country, such as having a .ru when in the UK, as few places will reg them.

I suppose that's the only thing you lose by not having domain privacy... eh, I can deal with junk letters.
 
I currently have surname.me.uk as the .co.uk has been parked since I can remember and all the .coms etc are taken. This is probably because my surname is also the name of a city in the US so all other domain names are registered to a what appears to be the local counsil.

Not that it matters as I only use the domain for email which I give out to clients who I work for outside of my 9-5.
 
Ciphon said:
I don't see an issue with having your name as your domain name.

I personally didn't do this, as I don't feel my name has that "ring" to it..
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Aquaboy does though :p


I have had my own doname (!) for a long time now, have had no privacy issues. Just use common sense and opt out of having your address details posted to the WHOIS listing and job done but your details are available online anyway for anyone really wanting it via other online services and networks.

Unless you are anonymous online 100% of the time.
 
Unless you are running something even mildly dodgy having your details on WHOIS isn't going to do anything at all... all I ever got from it while running the largest independant UK gaming blog and a digital art forum with 500~ active users was 2 letters trying to rip me off for domain renewal.
 
Hxc said:
Unless you are running something even mildly dodgy having your details on WHOIS isn't going to do anything at all... all I ever got from it while running the largest independant UK gaming blog and a digital art forum with 500~ active users was 2 letters trying to rip me off for domain renewal.
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That's all cool but on another forum some trolls decided it was fun to bribe another member by posting their address details and phone number within the forum so for stuff like that Opt out helps. It's also a one time free and standard process so why not do it out of practice anyway.
 
2StepSteve said:
Another part of me though feels this could lead to some possible problems with privacy and the loss of anonymity down the road.
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This would be my main concern.

There was a thread a few weeks ago where a user was asking for advice on how to get rid of a picture of himself that popped up on google image. Within a matter of minutes people had dug up a wealth of information on him.
 
I own firstnamelastname.co.uk. I don't use the actual domain apart from emails. [email protected] is nice and easy to remember.

I also recently set up a catch-all, so started using things like [email protected], [email protected]. Good way to see if people share out your email and easy to block them if so :)

Yes, whilst you can do a whois to find out of the personal details of the domain owners, I have domain privacy on all the domains I own.
 
Xtrm2Matt said:
I own firstnamelastname.co.uk. I don't use the actual domain apart from emails. [email protected] is nice and easy to remember.

I also recently set up a catch-all, so started using things like [email protected], [email protected]. Good way to see if people share out your email and easy to block them if so :)

Yes, whilst you can do a whois to find out of the personal details of the domain owners, I have domain privacy on all the domains I own.
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Liking this idea for individual websites.

Have had surname.me for a while (no hosting just used for Google Apps email) and firstnamelastname.co.uk in the past. This thread reminded me to pick it up again before it goes :)
 
jp_bl_68 said:
This would be my main concern.

There was a thread a few weeks ago where a user was asking for advice on how to get rid of a picture of himself that popped up on google image. Within a matter of minutes people had dug up a wealth of information on him.
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Yes!

I remember that thread, and oh how it quickly unravelled! :D

That was a prime example why you need to be careful if you are posting online about, ermm.. how shall I say it... 'private matters'. It didn't help by the fact he was also using the same user name in different places online.
 
Got several domains that link to my real identity either directly or indirectly. Does concern me sometimes how easy I am to track down over the Internet, but there's nothing (too) incriminating to be gleaned from any of it! :p
 
Never really thought about doing this, but to be honest the issue of anonymity and privacy puts me off. That and the fact that the domain is already taken by one of those annoying place holder sites
 
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