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domain name with your own name? (thelemmy.club)
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So I got hold of a domain that shows my exact full name. I thought it would be useful for showing up as "professional" when working in IT and sending resumes.

I got some mail forwarded using the domain registrar. I also made a small static website, which only has hello world for now but soon will get the contents filled up.

But then... what? I suppose I can host anything I want, but then there's the whole "real name - gotta look professional" aspect that makes me weary of hosting a Lemmy instance, for example, when the domain without my name attached wouldn't.

I suppose having personal domains were cool in the 90s where people were barely learning about "the internets". Not so anymore?

Is there a usefulness in having a domain name with your real name attached on this age?

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[–] lemcat 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Personally, I have [email protected] That was a domain I set up when I was self employed, contracting for people, trying to look 'professional' I still use it to this day, though the professional requirement is gone now since I'm employed by a company. Still, it's catchy and not that expensive, so I keep it, and renew for long periods of time.

Then I have another domain, not personally identifiable, for whatever stuff I want to host/play with. This one is a three letter .ac domain, I got 10 years for $200 ish. The three letters are my initials

So you say, is there usefulness in having a real name domain? Not unless it's your business. For me, when I was contracting, it was a simple attempt to get clients to remember me over the hundreds of others

To me, ones like [email protected] always seem like a lazy attempt, for a 'business'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its very ingrained on me that a proper business should be able to spare a few on a domain for themselves, as I remember it before the dot-com bubble.

Now? Websites have been displaced by social media altogether and many small business simply prefer having an Instagram profile, for example.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should never depend 100% on another platform for your only business presence. You can get banned on Instagram, Facebook etc. very easily. Treat them like a billboard not like your home.