Do You Own Your Name Domain Name?
Written By Scrivs on Apr. 15, 2008.
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Do you own yourname.com? I own paulscrivens.com for no other reason than to just own it and maybe one day move it up to the top of the SE results for 'Paul Scrivens'. Do you own your name and if it not and it isn't taken why not?

Tyme
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
Yup, I do but I admit I only registered it about a year or two ago. My domain names usually have my name in it so I didn't have that issue. Right now it's not even pointing to anything...perhaps I should do something with that lol.
JPhill
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
I unfortunately don't own johnphillips.com, but I do own johnwphillips.com
RightOn
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
yup and its been mine for about 9 years now. :)
I host my personal portfolio and resume on it.
Ozone42
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
I do... and have done absolutely nothing with it.
Oli
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
My name tops out at my domain (though it's not myname.com).
I've pleaded with Time Warner for somebody in their server-farm to assign me oli.warner.com but no love so far ='(
jbaker071
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
I wish I owned my own domain – instead it's owned by a actor/model/race car driver who uses his site for god knows what. I've settled with byjoeybaker.com, which works, but I wish I could just own my own name. Ah well, can't get it all.
dreamweaver
Written Apr. 15, 2008 / Report /
Yes, I do. I use it as a sort of index for a couple of my other sites. I've only owned it for a year or so, though, maybe not even that long, come to think about it.
benhaan
Written Apr. 16, 2008 / Report /
Yes, I own my name. benhaan.com. I just started using it for a blog. Before that I just used to host scripts that I would write and projects. I hope to make more use of it and get better SE on it in the future.
Ollie
Written Apr. 17, 2008 / Report /
I do but it isn't .com. Whoever owns OliverWhite.com hasn't done anything with it either, which is probably what would happen if I owned it.
dn
Written Apr. 17, 2008 / Report /
I own the worlds best domain
dogswearinghats.com
Jessy1002
Written Apr. 17, 2008 / Report /
yes i do...but there is nothing on it. =)
roth
Written Apr. 19, 2008 / Report /
samroth.com was taken, but I do own samroth.us. It is currently the site for my rarely updated blog, but I may expand it to include information about my design services.
JoeLencioni
Written Apr. 19, 2008 / Report /
I've been meaning to do this for a while now. I just registered joelencioni.com
robertc
Written Apr. 20, 2008 / Report /
I have rob.crowther.name - though all it does is redirect to another site I own. It also has a mostly unused blog which came free with the domain. Anyone else have a .name domain?
alisa
Written Apr. 21, 2008 / Report /
Yeah, I own alisawilhelm.com !
Originally, I intended it to have my portfolio on there, but it's been over a year now and the portfolio still isn't up. Oh well, eventually.
posure
Written Apr. 21, 2008 / Report /
Yeah, I own my name domain names. Likewise, I own them just so that I own them, I just have them redirect to my resume.
timfletcher
Written Apr. 21, 2008 / Report /
Yup, certainly do although I was a bit gutted that timfletcher.com had gone and I was 'stuck' with my full name of timothyfletcher.com. I reasoned that I should snap it up now before it went. I'll have to have a son of the same name so I can pass it on as a family heirloom.
aburad
Written Apr. 22, 2008 / Report /
yup i do..its www.aburad.com :) . I am using it as a personal page and hosting all the stuff i'm doing and also have moved by blog recently there.
Mike
Written Apr. 22, 2008 / Report /
No, some guy in Kansas named Thomas Mike Rundle bought all the good variants :(
Christian
Written Apr. 23, 2008 / Report /
I don't and to be honest I've never really thought about it before. I just checked (christianwatson.com) and there's nothing there right now so maybe it's even available!