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Over the last month I have noticed several bloggers have switched from free hosting and bought their own domains. Often times they’ve bought their own name (ie. Kat Argonza dot com, Ryan Paugh dot com etc). I bought mine in November 2008 for my Birthday because I felt it was important for me to own my own name on the Web.
Your Name is your biggest name brand
When your parents are naming you, they’ve got something in mind - if they name y
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02.02.09
I have modite.com and I have rebeccathorman.com forwarding to modite.com. I agree it's especially important in today's world!
02.02.09
I have modite.com and I have rebeccathorman.com forwarding to modite.com. I agree it's especially important in today's world!
02.02.09
To me it's so weird (and cool) that you posted this, because I just bought my domain and switched my blog over to davidjdotson.com 2 or 3 days ago for this exact reason. Also, if someone has heard your name and is looking to find out more about you on the web, they are much more likely to find www.yourname.com than yourname.bloghost'sname.com. Exposure is the name of the game when networking, and your own domain significantly upgrades the exposure you can get. Good post!
02.02.09
Don't forget to register .net and .org while you're at it and forward it to your .com.
02.02.09
In fact, as we speak, I'm also registering danhoang.net and danhoang.org (danhoang.com is taken).
02.02.09
What's the best domain registration site to use?
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