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i think it's because i internalised the "domain names should be cute/clever/creative/individual" mindset; registering yourname.tld comes way too low on the imag

by zem 14y ago

i think it's because i internalised the "domain names should be cute/clever/creative/individual" mindset; registering yourname.tld comes way too low on the imaginativeness scale. i wouldn't name a star/planet/city/village/company/building/house after myself either. the internet at large does seem to be shifting more towards seeing domains as equivalent to email addresses, though, so i'll probably go ahead and register myname.net at some point.

mikejarema 14y ago
I hadn't thought of the creativity perspective here & I agree that YourName.tld is an uninspiring, obvious choice. I've made the analogy to a few people that a cooldude69@hotmail.com email address that you may have setup in high school isn't necessarily what you want to be posting on your resume / linkedin account. Thanks for the comment!
- zem 14y ago
  i wasn't thinking about the domain equivalent of cooldude69, i was thinking more of sites like "daringfireball.net", "intertwingly.net", "defmacro.org" - something that is creative without being gauche. (personally, i really wanted hitchhiker.net but i was too late to get it)
  - mikejarema 14y ago
    Sorry, didn't mean to imply that tackiness was along the lines of what you were thinking, the analogy was off the mark. I like hitchhiker.net, but looks that company has grabbed all the TLD variations unfortunately. I'm curious, what would you do with hitchhiker.net if you had it today? I ask because a friend of mine was excited to grab InsomniaLabs.com on the drop, but has yet to make much of it as his personal site.
    - zem 14y ago
      i'd probably move over my rudimentary website [http://zem.novylen.net/ http://zem.novylen.net/ - some 10 years ago a friend who was more proactive about these things set up novylen.net and then offered a bunch of friends free domains on it, so i figured why not] and consolidate a few scattered ideas for blogs i started on wordpress.org. "zem" and "hitchhiker" are names i frequently go by online and in fandom, so it would definitely be something i thought of as a personal site to coalesce my online identity around.

by zem 14y ago

mikejarema 14y ago

I hadn't thought of the creativity perspective here & I agree that YourName.tld is an uninspiring, obvious choice. I've made the analogy to a few people that a cooldude69@hotmail.com email address that you may have setup in high school isn't necessarily what you want to be posting on your resume / linkedin account. Thanks for the comment!

zem 14y ago
i wasn't thinking about the domain equivalent of cooldude69, i was thinking more of sites like "daringfireball.net", "intertwingly.net", "defmacro.org" - something that is creative without being gauche. (personally, i really wanted hitchhiker.net but i was too late to get it)
- mikejarema 14y ago
  Sorry, didn't mean to imply that tackiness was along the lines of what you were thinking, the analogy was off the mark. I like hitchhiker.net, but looks that company has grabbed all the TLD variations unfortunately. I'm curious, what would you do with hitchhiker.net if you had it today? I ask because a friend of mine was excited to grab InsomniaLabs.com on the drop, but has yet to make much of it as his personal site.
  - zem 14y ago
    i'd probably move over my rudimentary website [http://zem.novylen.net/ http://zem.novylen.net/ - some 10 years ago a friend who was more proactive about these things set up novylen.net and then offered a bunch of friends free domains on it, so i figured why not] and consolidate a few scattered ideas for blogs i started on wordpress.org. "zem" and "hitchhiker" are names i frequently go by online and in fandom, so it would definitely be something i thought of as a personal site to coalesce my online identity around.