domain name with your own name?

neutron@thelemmy.club to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 39 points –

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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I did first@last.me and can confirm, it confuses people all too often.

I have first@last.email, and my community rec organization couldn't even accept it because their system had a hard coded lost of TLDs it would recognize for email addresses.

Guess the junior dev they had building their systems hadn't figured out regex yet lol