> I am wondering: does a domain still matter in 2025? It totally does and it's not mutually exclusive with a social media presence. And now that many people ar

> I am wondering: does a domain still matter in 2025? It totally does and it's not mutually exclusive with a social media presence. And now that many people are using LLMs also for searching, if LLMs do redirect to your domain it's bingo. There's this fantasy that people only ever use their phones and social media and that computers do not exist anymore. Then there's the real world where people actually work and they're all on real computers and they do look stuff in either good old search engines or using LLMs, by typing on an actual keyboard and looking at the results at an actual screen. If you're showing food recipes or Minecraft vids: fine, your social account will do. But for anything related to the real world, where real people doing real work in actual offices may be looking you up, a domain shall greatly help. In addition to that: many people at work are also using their actual computers to look up personal stuff. Looks more serious to do it at the computer than on a phone. And as as been pointed by several in this thread already: at least its a presence you can control without being at the mercy of a single company.