Thoughts on using your real name for a domain?

BenjiSayers · 28 Mar 2011 at 16:26

I have benjisayers.co.uk as some smart-ass decided to setup a golf company years ago called Ben Sayers

so that was never going to be an option and BenjaminSayers.co.uk seemed to just be too long a domain imo.

GravyMonster · 28 Mar 2011 at 16:28

I have firstnamesurname.com. I wanted just surname.com but it's a building company in Minnesota. Damn squatters.

Have my email as [email protected] which is pretty :cool:

flat-6 · 28 Mar 2011 at 16:32

Used to have the .co.uk but forgot about it. Now have the .net and love it.

Confuses dumb people on the phone a lot though, who obv think hotmail is the only address you can have.

Doonhamer · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:00

So whats the consensus on which looks best on cv and application forms ie [email protected], .com etc

Or does nobody take any notice?

mrk · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:24

Doonhamer said:
So whats the consensus on which looks best on cv and application forms ie [email protected], .com etc

Or does nobody take any notice?

If the job app is within IT then it can/does get noticed - But if it's for McDonalds, for example, then no

RomanNose · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:29

I have my own domain, firstname+last name, Use it with my own mailserver as most of the mail providers e.g hotmail are a bit too slow for my liking.

mrk · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:32

Gmail certainly is not slow

It might go down for a few hours once a year but it's the most accessible and functional with your own domain!

RomanNose · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:43

Khaaan! said:
Gmail certainly is not slow

It might go down for a few hours once a year but it's the most accessible and functional with your own domain!

Well I prefer to use a client like thunderbird, and it takes a few minutes if I wanted to put my own webmail client on my server.

Doonhamer · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:48

Khaaan! said:
If the job app is within IT then it can/does get noticed - But if it's for McDonalds, for example, then no

Thats what I thought. Is there an unofficial ranking list of the extensions for those looking to gain IT geek approval?

phi1 · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:53

I own phi1.org.uk had an offer from somebody to buy it but I use it for my email. Linked to google and then use it on my phone and can have my email all over the world easily.

zYx · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:57

2StepSteve said:
Edit: Can a don move this thread to GD? As I think I would get more feedback there, thanks

A part of me likes this idea. It is like your piece of the web which is linked to your real identity for sharing blogs/thoughts/interests.

I have registered a few domains in the past, but always want to go back to using my name for a site.

Another part of me though feels this could lead to some possible problems with privacy and the loss of anonymity down the road.

What do you think? I know we have a few members here that openly share their full name in their website domain.

I have my own domain. My whole family have their email addresses with [email protected]

Fuzz · 28 Mar 2011 at 19:21

Got mine set up with my surname. Works well.

www.cooksononline.net

Nothing but out of date holiday pics on it at the moment though.

RoyMi6 · 28 Mar 2011 at 20:07

Scubascorpion said:
Got mine set up with my surname. Works well.

www.cooksononline.net

Nothing but out of date holiday pics on it at the moment though.

You do know that your domain is going to appear in the long list of "penisland.net" alternatives right?

Fuzz · 28 Mar 2011 at 20:18

I thought anything pornographic was going to be on penisland.xxx

ianh · 28 Mar 2011 at 20:37

I've got my file dump site as a .com but I share my name with a "well respected" (published books, appeared in parliment etc) British 9/11 conspiracy theorist so I had to add a little something to the blank index.html so looneys would stop pestering me with their visions of Alien Overlords etc thinking I was this conspiracy guy.

zYx · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:41

Scubascorpion said:
I thought anything pornographic was going to be on penisland.xxx

Hehe dirty thoughts

bl4ckdr4g0n · 28 Mar 2011 at 23:45

it really depends i guess if you see yourself being a star one day

Energize · 29 Mar 2011 at 00:02

Given the choice between firstname-surname.co.uk and firstnamesurname.eu which do you think is better? I think the .co.uk is better but the 2nd one doesn't require me to say forename hyphen surname when telling someone it.

zYx · 29 Mar 2011 at 00:17

Energize said:
Given the choice between firstname-surname.co.uk and firstnamesurname.eu which do you think is better? I think the .co.uk is better but the 2nd one doesn't require me to say forename hyphen surname when telling someone it.

Do you really want FirstNameSurname.xx ? Off course it's your choice, I would just go for a Surname.xx. Check this site, they have some nice short domains .xx

https://www.godaddy.com/

Energize · 29 Mar 2011 at 00:32

I have a very common surname so that is not possible. Besides I want to host a website at my name in the future so having both names is preferable.