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>Own your domain name. If you want to post content, anything more substantial than cat pictures, things you may want to come back to in the future, you should o
by networked 14y ago
>Own your domain name. If you want to post content, anything more substantial than cat pictures, things you may want to come back to in the future, you should own your domain name. It's cheap and ensures that your links won't have to change even if you need to move to a new platform.
I have been meaning to get a set of personal (as opposed to project-centered) domains for a while for exactly those reasons. Should I get the .me and the .name along with the .com? What best practices would HN recommend?
- mattmanser 14y agoBuy just one. Any more and all you're paying for is the utter retardedness behind TLDs and domain name system. What are you going to do with the .me and .name? Just redirect them? If someone else comes along and you've not built the domain authority you'll still lose out if they build a better online rep than you, it really doesn't matter if they get the .name or the .org or the .eu or the .xxx or the .arenttldsgreatandnotatotallystupididea. Preferably not from a really dodgy country.
- nwh 14y agoI'd avoid .xxx, some web filters seem to block that indiscriminately.
- larrys 14y ago.com only. Forget .me and .name. No need for those. (I've been a registrar since the ICANN start and in domains since 1996)
- mixmastamyk 14y agoAll taken.
- nwh 14y ago.im? Failing that, drop over to http://domai.nr/ http://domai.nr/ and try to find a domain hack based on your name. Once in a blue moon, people get truly awesome hacks. http://rog.ie/ http://rog.ie/ springs to mind.