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Ask HN: What did you pay for firstnamelastname.com
just curious what a reasonable figure is for a domain like matthewsmith.com or davidrandall.com, guess it probably depends if your name is common or not?
- Garvey 10y ago£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
- TaylorGood 10y agoAssuming your first+last is already being parked by someone? Was able to get mine at a registrar, but it was my nickname where I paid a "premium" about 7 years ago... five letters and I really wanted it. Negotiated a guy from $3000 to $300. More specifically, his first response was $3000 then I waited three months and offered $300. He had a formal landing page.. no different from hugedomains.com - I've noticed for non-brandable "premium" domains these services are trying to get $1-2k for personal domains.
- banhfun 10y agoI have a relatively uncommon last name, so I got my domain name at the standard price for a domain name ($11/year at Dynadot)
- saiko-chriskun 10y agoI've been using nbolt.io even though I own neillbolton.com. Is the .com worth it?
- cjsturgess 10y agonbolt.io sounds better in my opinion.
- Shane325 10y agoI reached out to the owner of my name.com and we agreed on $100. He wanted $4000 but when he realized that I just wanted to host a personal site he was happy taking $100.
- ConroyBumpus 10y agoI have an unusual last name - firstinitiallastname.com was about $10 per year.
- Schwolop 10y agoMine was far too expensive, so I spent three years getting a Ph.D. and bought drtomallen.com instead.
- Kpourdeilami 10y agoboth my first and last name are very rare so I could get it for $10/yr
- bedrovesen 10y agogot mine in around 2005 for about $8 a year
- echeese 10y agoMy last name is shared with about 8 people in my country, so I managed to snag lastname.ca and now my email is firstname@lastname.ca (but I still own firstname@firstnamelastname.com which is a mouthful.) lastname.com is parked but it keeps getting renewed shortly before it expires. Both domains cost around $10/yr
- Gustomaximus 10y agoI'd probably pay up to $500 but really it's all up to you. I registered firstnamelastname.com a few years ago which was fortunite as there a few of my name about. Someone later registered my local county domain and used to putting heavy religious stuff on it so I regret not buying that one too now as occasionally people confuse .com and the country domain.
- girvo 10y agoI pay $10/y, one of the benefits of having a rather not popular last name
- mrvagabond 10y agoI originally tried to find lastname.com, but that was already taken. So I got lastname.me. Now my email is firstname@lastname.me. Later on I registered firstnamelastname.com and fistnamelastname.me just to be safe. The .me domains are more expensive, but I really like them for use as a personal domain. I pay $75/y for three domains.
- Raed667 10y agoI got firstname.it for around 7$ PS: 4 letter uncommon first name
- cm2012 10y agoJust make up a middle initial and put it on your resume :)
- akras14 10y ago$10 per year - alexkras.com
- ganeshkrishnan 10y agoIt depends on how common your name + lastname is. I have a very common first name + last name among Indians and plenty at silicon valley but I got mine few years back at my registrar for $13 per year.
- wingerlang 10y agoI've got an .se domain with my unique last name which is something around $15 per year.
- iends 10y ago$1000 :( Took me almost 10 years to get. Finally used network solutions certified offer service instead of paying the 10k and 5k previously quoted.
- endemic 10y agoAfter 10 years, doesn't sound too bad actually.
- nstart 10y ago12 USD :D
- herbst 10y agoI have lastname.localtld costs me $15. I think local tlds make much more sense for name domains than generics like .com.
- stevekemp 10y agoI 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.
- majurg 10y ago$10
- vortico 10y ago$10 for a .name domain. I think it's appropriate for personal sites, although .com would be nicer.
- gadders 10y agoI think I just paid the regular .com amount from when I first registered it 10 years or more ago. My surname also ends in BY so I recently bought a Belorussian domain for it so my website is [firstname].[partofsurname].by and email address is [firstname]@[partofsurname].by
- loumf 10y agoI got it a long time ago, so just ~$10/year for over a decade. I did once get contacted by one of my dopppelnamers, who happened to be the lead guitarist of an 80's one-hit wonder band (and now solo), but I didn't want to give it up. I have the .com, but he dominates SEO for our name.
- zhte415 10y agoAbout $50/year on initial registration, but that's because .coms were so expensive then / seemed expensive / didn't find cheaper options. Then $10 / year. And now $15 / year on a registrar I trust with security a fair bit more. Reason for a change in paying a little more for a much better (perceived, at least) service was I started getting mails from someone with the (almost same) name suggesting I 'give' him my domain name (and Twitter, and Gmail, and LinkedIn, etc). Give him. As 'I was not using it'. Despite having it as primary email address for ~15 years and a small placeholder page for namecard, logins, ssh, personal projects, cloud hosting, etc. Persistent, timed emails, every 6 months or so. And he was in SEO so perhaps somewhat cluefull of dark arts, so move to a non-cheapest registrar. If you're on the reverse, check your registrar is providing a secure service, for example passwords not (or seeming to be, based on login hints), in plain text.
- PatentTroll 10y agoI tried lastname.email but had trouble validating the address first@lastname.email at a lot of places. Lucked out though and found a tld with the last two letters of my last name, now I'm first@lastna.me and I think it's slick. Hard as hell to explain to customer service reps that there's no '.com' at the end of it though.
- _RPM 10y agoI paid 10.
- ericzawo 10y agomyname .com was several hundred(?) so i moved to myname.co and it's about 11$/year.
- a_lifters_life 10y ago$11/yr
- sheraz 10y agoI'm lucky. Exotic name. And I've had it for 10+ years. $10/year
- yagyu 10y ago~$12/year for jonaseinarsson.se and .com (it wasn't taken) Semi-common name in Sweden.
- keviv 10y agoFirstnameLastname.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.
- bbcbasic 10y agoI have a relatively uncommon last name, so I got my domain name at the standard price for a domain name ($11/year at Namecheap)
- brandoncordell 10y ago$7.99/yr I believe.
- wprapido 10y agomy name + lastname mix is rare so i just paid regular registration fee