discuss Do you own your last name?

[S-B]

This morning, I picked up Bellone.com from a private party.

While reflecting, I realized that I have not seen many people operating on their last name .coms.

Does anyone else out there own their last name?

 

[RU]

Yes.

 

[S-B]

Yes.

Do you use it for an email or for a website or both?

 

[RU]

Do you use it for an email or for a website or both?

fwd to fb

 

[S-B]

fwd to fb

Nice. Kind of cool.

 

[TravisS]

Mine is off the market unfortunately. It's funny you started this post, because the other day I was drudging through similar look ups on name variants. I'd be great to own mine, but I already own a million (few) I could use for the same personal-branding use.

 

[S-B]

Mine is off the market unfortunately. It's funny you started this post, because the other day I was drudging through similar look ups on name variants. I'd be great to own mine, but I already own a million (few) I could use for the same personal-branding use.

No better way to brand yourself imo.

 

[TravisS]

No better way to brand yourself imo.

I'd rather have my first name. If I had the choice, it'd be an easy one.

 

[S-B]

I'd rather have my first name. If I had the choice, it'd be an easy one.

There are many people named Travis though.

 

[TravisS]

There are many people named Travis though.

And that's the reason why it has more value.

 

[S-B]

And that's the reason why it has more value.

Ah. I'm not talking for resale.

 

[donnied79]

I have it in my ccTld, the .it and I use it as [email protected]

 

[Grego85]

not last name alone (I wish)

but I have my first name last name in .com and .net

 

[Nazz]

Mine has been reg'd since 1999 to some industrial company. Highly unlikely, that I would be able to acquire it.

Sad face.

 

[maya-zir]

My surname is aviable for reg but it is so difficult for spell and long than has no reason to use it as domain.
I would like to have my name's domain, but maya.com is too expensive and i am not sure its owner will sell it

 

[cdnbigd]

I own my first name + last name .com.

 

[bigdomainer]

I have FN + LN in .com + several other tlds; .com and .info are developed for personal use. I have just my last name in a couple of ngTLDs, but not in .com. I also have my FN + last initial that I use for short URLs.

 

[solarix]

The .com for mine has been regged since 1997. It belongs to a food company.
The .net is owned by Tucows used by their Realnames Email Fwd Service
The .org is owned by a hospital.

Chances are I won't be able to own it unless the .com player goes out of business.

Congrats on your Bellone.com pickup Shane!

 

[Josh R]

Reason.com
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Would cost a lot for me to acquire mine.

 

[Shimmy]

I don't own mine, it belongs to a huge corporation

 

[NameClerk]

I looked into acquiring it long ago and didn't get anywhere. No replies to emails or calls. Didn't realize it at the time but it's owned by a multi-national corp based in Germany. No chance of getting my first name either (Bill)

I settled for BadBilly.com in the event I ever wanted to tie all my projects to one online identity. I'm no bad ass but I do think it memorable. Plenty of logo potential too.

 

[21x20]

Yup... Since 1996.

 

[cdnbigd]

Just found out my last name belongs to a realtor who lives a couple hours away from me. I'll just keep my FN+LN

 

[Name Trader]

Congrats on your purchase. Are you going to rebrand or develop yourself on Bellone.com? Or just let it go to waste as so many others do? I could no way afford my name in any of the top tlds or tlds like .co. They're all in commercial use. But I have my firstlast in .com and several short shortened versions of my firstname/lastname .com. All prefixes/suffixes like go/co/inc/corp also all gone. I sometime get jealous when I see others owning their lastname.com, when I know mine is off the market. My lastnamedomains.com is available, that is quite a long mouthful, but would be relevant to what I do. However, I have some relatively good shorter domains I'm having to select from, for a new venture. Well not completely new venture

 

[FPForum]

Yup - since 2000