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domain name with your own name? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago by neutron@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] DirtMcGirt@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Glad to see I'm not the only one doing this. It definitely leads to a lot of small talk about my email domain, but I've never run into a situation yet where I couldn't sign up for something. My personal favorite is when reluctantly providing an email for something I don't care about I can spout out something like "blockthishottrash@mydomain.tld". That's lead to some fun reactions.