Email : all shiny TLD taken, which would you pick among those ones ?

[Gee.B]

Hello,

I'm looking to create firstname@lastname .tld

Given that com, net, me, org, eu, and my ccTLD are taken... and that lastname(.)xyz ans lastname(.co) are over $1000

Would you rather go for :

• firstname@lastname .pm
• firstname@lastname .cc
• firstname@lastname .pro
• firstname@lastname .email
• firstname@lastname .info

I'm not a fan of hi@firstnamelastname(.)com

thanks for your inputs 🙏  and if you have other ideas...

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

One thing I would advise is learn from my mistakes and either get a TLD for the country you live in or a .com, .net or .org.

The reason I say that is I had used a .eu for years, both for my personal blog and my email. Then the UK decided to leave the EU, which resulted in British citizens losing the rights to their .eu domains... so I lost my domain due to a political event out of my control.

I'm sure you can imagine the nightmare of trying to switch over anything you had ever used that email address with over to a new domain, then having to redirect my blog to another domain, eventually losing any backlinks I'd built up.

Some of the more vanity domains can be quite a bit to renew after the first year from what I've seen which is something to keep in mind.

Something else to consider is the entity behind the TLD reliable? could you one day lose the rights to the domain for a reason out of your control?

How is the more obscure domain perceived?  .co.cc has a reputation for spam and scams for example.

My last name is pretty common so I'd have no chance of ever getting lastname.tld, however i did manage to get firstlastname.uk and have various email alias at this domain, such as:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Its personal preference at the end of the day, however I'd be very selective with the TLD if purchasing another domain today.

[+BudMan MVC]

On 03/07/2023 at 09:12, Gee.B said:

lastname(.)xyz ans lastname(.co) are over $1000

Where are you seeing that .xyz are over $1K?

I have a .xyz and isn't anywhere close to that.. Namecheap currently has them for 2 bucks for first year.

Do you mean someone already has the domain you want in .xyz an they want 1k for it?

Can't you just change it up a bit, like fist initial lastname?

What about .net - those are normally reasonable - I have namebased.net domain that I have had for 20 years..  My renew is coming up, its currently 12$ a year.. The problem with the .email tld is pricey to renew.. namecheap wants 25, and dynadot wants 21..

 

 

 

 

[+InsaneNutter MVC]

On 03/07/2023 at 23:12, BudMan said:

Where are you seeing that .xyz are over $1K?

This is often the case with more common names / names of existing websites I find.

Registrars essentially present the domain as available, however if you do a whois you will find someone else has already registered the domain and its actually for sale.

Neowin would be over £1000 to buy, however would then renew at £11 a year. I guess you could say the "premium" tag essentially means for sale by a third party:

If i was to buy my name as an .xyz it would be over £47,000! 😅 

 

[+BudMan MVC]

On 04/07/2023 at 03:28, InsaneNutter said:

it would be over £47,000! 

Is your last name microsoft or porn or something like that? heheheh