strategy First Name, Last Name Domain Names – Do you Register / Acquire them?

I own all versions of my name except first name as it is a famous Greek mathematician .

My first name dot com taken

My last name dot com taken

Wasnt going let full name away. Dam right i reg'd it, It's one of those investments you know you'll never sell... but help long-run avoid litigation, hostage negotiation buyback off had the intuition to reg'd before you. These should be avail to hand-reg; dont be that cheap.

Samer

I know someone on twitter that sell FN+LN .com and he seems to be succesful in selling it between low xxx to mid xxx range.

From that , i also reg some personal name .com and currently own

LeviJackson/com
BellaTorres/com
Jhenifer/com
Saqib/co
Catriona/co

No sales yet as its only new reg but planning to add more.

Richard John Rejano said:

I know someone on twitter that sell FN+LN .com and he seems to be succesful in selling it between low xxx to mid xxx range.

From that , i also reg some personal name .com and currently own

LeviJackson/com
BellaTorres/com
Jhenifer/com
Saqib/co
Catriona/co

No sales yet as its only new reg but planning to add more.

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Nice names. Link to their twitter please?

I sold a name+surname domain for $1999 last year & have sold others for low to mid xxx.

Haven't had luck selling a first name .co yet. Well I've been lazy with outbounding. I have a few like Khabib.co, Mahmoud.co, Reynold.co which I tried outbounding to some rich people on LinkedIn.

One of them, a high profile Fintech investor from Abu Dhabi replied saying he wasn't interested, although I stalked him & found out he was trying to start a personal website & the first name word .co would have been perfect

I wouldn't advise to squat on someone else's name as only reserving it for them. Will you try fight or ignore anything but offers? What ever is cheaper to get it eg same country law or low ball. I have found some single names when actually looked first and surnames have a female name domain and a surname domain.

First Name Last Name domains tend to look like cybersquatting in ways that single names don't.

Consider JuliaRoberts.com Vs Julia.com or Roberts.com. Two look good. One doesn't (UDRP wise).

Some sellers pull off selling First Name Last Name domains, but I will generally advice against it.

here's a hint.

price point here.

Say you are bit time name like a celebrity or even maybe a CEO? but either your name is so generic and so many people have your first name or even last name like John or Smith.

This is where a domainer can make money.

Many of these people will want a .com no a .co or whatever

.com is where it's at.

No expert here but I feel any domain that ends in ........................

360.com
TV.com
24.com
247.com
365.com
VR.com
app.com
s.com
co.com
1.com
123.com
inc.com
company.com
sucks.com

and also domains that start with............

the
1
24
247
360
365
TV
VR
iam
im



would have some value in this "space" where someone needs a .com with their name but can't afford it or is just overly price borderline ridiculous.

and they are not familiar with .co or .tv or don't like .net or .org and simply want THE BEST.

FolioTeam said:

First Name Last Name domains tend to look like cybersquatting in ways that single names don't.

Consider JuliaRoberts.com Vs Julia.com or Roberts.com. Two look good. One doesn't (UDRP wise).

Some sellers pull off selling First Name Last Name domains, but I will generally advice against it.

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I think it depends on the popularity of the name & if any public figures bear it. Popular names like JohnSmith.com etc have possibly millions of end users although only one of them can own it and the rest would have to append something if they want to use their name in their business e.g JohnSmith[insert job role].com. Unlike business names which generally get trademarked, I personally see nothing wrong with first+last name domains as trademarking a legal name which anyone can have is silly.

And cyber squatting is generally regarding business names and trademarks. I wouldn’t consider it malicious cyber squatting. It’s just being the supplier for the demand, just like the registrars are although they may charge low registration fees compared to our resale price.

alienbaba said:

I think it depends on the popularity of the name & if any public figures bear it. Popular names like JohnSmith.com etc have possibly millions of end users although only one of them can own it and the rest would have to append something if they want to use their name in their business e.g JohnSmith[insert job role].com. Unlike business names which generally get trademarked, I personally see nothing wrong with first+last name domains as trademarking a legal name which anyone can have is silly.

And cyber squatting is generally regarding business names and trademarks. I wouldn’t consider it malicious cyber squatting. It’s just being the supplier for the demand, just like the registrars are although they may charge low registration fees compared to our resale price.

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I agree when they are popular names like JohnSmith or names like Jane Doe.

Other names outside of those feel like they are targeting one or two people

FolioTeam said:

I agree when they are popular names like JohnSmith or names like Jane Doe.

Other names outside of those feel like they are targeting one or two people

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so what's the threshold for cybersquatting
1 - 2 people - bad

2 - 4 people - still bad?

10 - 100 really nice?

I own Gianci.com popular Spanish last name, archive org shows jewelry website on this name.
Gucci Gianci.. Goldci

I own several 1-2 word person names and sold a few to date. Overall, I saw male names do sell well compare to female.

Samer said:

My first name dot com taken

My last name dot com taken

Wasnt going let full name away. Dam right i reg'd it, It's one of those investments you know you'll never sell... but help long-run avoid litigation, hostage negotiation buyback off had the intuition to reg'd before you. These should be avail to hand-reg; dont be that cheap.

Samer

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considering your name samer is a very commonly used name in the middle east of course it would be taken :D

my name is very uncommon very few in the world have it yet it was registered waiting on it to drop to hand reg
to answer op question no i feel some kind of way about taking the right from people to register there own name

I own my first name in .com and use it primarily for email [email protected] but will have a website there soon.

But I guess that is not what was asked. I do have first name domains and last name domains, but primarily because they make great brands, imo, like Dell, Bloomberg etc. Often, good brandables turn out to be also names somewhere in the world, because the names are forms of brands too, just personal...

I don't register random First Name/Last Name .coms for resale, no.

I won my own name in .COM, my first name in .ME, and I have a few first name .COs:

Luisa /co
Javier /co
Lupe /co
Katrin /co

I sold Anna (.) co and Carly (.) co.

I feel like First Name/Last Name .coms are a bit of a shot in the dark, and I'd feel kind of uncomfortable owning someone's name, rather than keywords.

Recons.Com said:

I own my first name in .com and use it primarily for email [email protected] but will have a website there soon.

But I guess that is not what was asked. I do have first name domains and last name domains, but primarily because they make great brands, imo, like Dell, Bloomberg etc. Often, good brandables turn out to be also names somewhere in the world, because the names are forms of brands too, just personal...

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frank-germany said:

you want to have an index.php ...

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or just straight install WP with a good theme ))

NLP said:

I don't register random First Name/Last Name .coms for resale, no.

I won my own name in .COM, my first name in .ME, and I have a few first name .COs:

Luisa /co
Javier /co
Lupe /co
Katrin /co

I sold Anna (.) co and Carly (.) co.

I feel like First Name/Last Name .coms are a bit of a shot in the dark, and I'd feel kind of uncomfortable owning someone's name, rather than keywords.

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What were the sale prices on Anna (.) co and Carly (.) co. if you can share, were these inbound or outbound sales?

Robbie said:

What were the sale prices on Anna (.) co and Carly (.) co. if you can share, were these inbound or outbound sales?

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All of my sales are inbound. Anna was a few years ago, listed at $10k BIN at Sedo, and Carly sold for $1500 last year through GoDaddy's Domain offer/broker service.

I undersold Carly bigtime, and should have countered with a higher figure, but it's ok, and it wasn't a name I was attached to.

Generally, no, but I have registered and use my own name, well the variant of it that was available.

I've done a few for some family members as gifts. They were surprised and stoked!

sold tricia / org so they sell dont know about dot com yet but will find out. lol.

I like Firstname .com's but would never reg a FirstnameLastname .com.

I have my name and one other name.