Do you buy your full name .com?

[dewd]

im curious, do many people buy thier own full name.com ?


ie.

johnsmith.com

i was thinking about buying my full name.com but i dunno if id ever use it

do you guys buy your own name? heh

 

[sunken]

Never tried to get my full name. I should give that a shot one of these days. I had enough trouble getting my handle Shadowwind. Had to wait for a plumbing company to give it up.

 

[deu12000]

Heh, I was just thinking "what if you're the next Bill Gates?". Then I looked and saw that both billgates.com and williamgates.com are both parked.

If I were the next Bill Gates I'd know about it before anyone else don't you think? If someone were about to make it big they'd know before anyone else.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I got mine when someone dropped it a few years ago. I used it for my photography gallery until about 2 years ago, then moved the site. I don't use my full firstnamelastname.com any more, but will keep it. I do use my lastname.us and also have the .biz and info of it. The .com is registered until 1012,and the org and biz are in regular use for businesses.

If you want to see something interesting, go to google news and fill out a google alert with your full "firstname lastname" in quotes. Every time it shows up in google news you will get a headline and email link to the story. Turns out there is a professor in Hawaii, a magician in California, and several other businesspeople in other states that occassionally make the news. I can keep up on whether people of the same name are doing something that could be confused with me.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Every variation in almost all "common extensions" possible (.com , .us, .org, .de, .co.uk, etc) I travel, a lot, and I could end up just about anywhere. Also, never know when they might be useful, and for the rather limited cost, why not? I also bought a handful of friend's and coworker's names and set them up email addresses. I kept the names in my account, however, and have the websites directed to parking sites When their contacts get an email from [email protected] and want to see what's on theirname.com, we all win (Dirty, and penny-pinching, but they really don't want the websites, just the email. If they ever asked for the sites themselves, it'd be theirs in a heartbeat).
-Allan

 

[skyraider]

Yeah, dude. I have zachdexter.com.

 

[jamminsport16]

why buy ur fullname, its not worth anything unless its: JohnDoe or JohnSmith. lol
Unless for personal site =]

 

[swimjenni]

I can't register my first name.... and am supprised that I can register my full name(there is a European Opera singer with the same first and last name). I could register just my last name if I wanted too.

 

[jamminsport16]

lol swimjenni

 

[skyraider]

I can't register my first name.... and am supprised that I can register my full name(there is a European Opera singer with the same first and last name). I could register just my last name if I wanted too.

Is there opera singer popular? You could reg it and get some traffic :lol:

 

[jamminsport16]

yeah traffic (google adsense) and sell it when it expires next year for some extra $xx =]

 

[dc1pop]

would if it wasnt taken

 

[jamminsport16]

wish my name was 'lebron james' and i registered my name 5 years ago =]

 

[MissFlora]

I registered my fullname.com just last month. I guess I'm lucky to own it, don't want someone else to have it to park some adult pics or something. Lol. But literally, I don't really use it. Unfortunately, I tried to purchase my last name two months ago and some domain giant owns it, not willing to let it go at all. So..I gave up. Lol. I'm happy with my fullname.com

*And ya, my firstname.com (Flora.com) is way too expensive for me. But if I do earn like a million a month when I grow up (or married a super-duper rich husband), I'll consider accquiring it. Hehehe.*

Cheerios,
Flora.

 

[swimjenni]

I can't register my first name.... and am supprised that I can register my full name(there is a European Opera singer with the same first and last name). I could register just my last name if I wanted too.

Is there opera singer popular? You could reg it and get some traffic :lol:

If anyone knows anything about French Opera, please pm me. I don't listen to Opera and don't live in Europe to know. I just did another type in of my name and go to figure my first and last name .com were taken. I still can get just my last night though. My name had 26,400 results and Google and it is not a common first/last name!

 

[jcmdcp]

jamminsport16, funny you should mention "John Doe"...

I reg'd my first name mixed with my girlfriend's, and so I own:

www.jawndoe.com

Use it for art.

 

[kektex]

Just recently I tried registering my last name since it was expiring and even though it`s in spanish and is not very common it was registered by someone and is parked using google adsense for some reason...can`t think why it would get any traffic
My full name is still available.Might use one of those $4 registrars to grab it while I can :D

I can't register my first name.... and am supprised that I can register my full name(there is a European Opera singer with the same first and last name)

Is your first name luciano? last name pavarotti? :red:

 

[Jimmy Changa]

I would love to register my last name but some one else has Doria.com

I don't see me picking that one up any time soon.

 

[swimjenni]

I can't register my first name.... and am supprised that I can register my full name(there is a European Opera singer with the same first and last name)

Is your first name luciano? last name pavarotti? :red:

I just pm'ed you my last name... if anyone else would like to know just let me know(I will be happy to give it to you)

 

[MD]

My full name is 17 characters long. It's .COM is available , but i wouldn't pay a cent for it.

 

[Petter]

petter.com is taken
nitter.com is take
rugesæter.com is adavible
petternitter.com is avadible
nitterrugesæter.com is avadible
petternitterrugesæter.com is avadible

I bet that non of the adavible ever will be regged unless i do so :p