Effective Internet Presence: Now required for success in business and life
What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting, Real-Life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere
Do you own your "name" URL, for example (in my case) www.TedDemopoulos.com??
(to help figure out what your name is, see What's Your Name?)
If it's available, you want it. You might not use it right away, and who knows, it might not matter in a few years, but for about US1$ a day you want it -- it might matter a lot.
For starters, it'll enormously help you be the #1 hit in the search engines for your name. Yes, the search engines pay a lot of attention to the URL. And that matters becuase people are always googling you -- yes, you.
Did you know that their are no 3 character .com domain names available? And just about any word .com is gone too. .net and other extension URLs are disappearing rapidly as well.
Soon all the name URLs may be gone, bought both by people with those names and others who think they will be valuable. It's the current Internet real estate land rush. Hey, sex.com sold for $14 millions dollars. joesmith.com and maryjones.net must be worth something too.
If you can't get yourname.com, maybe yourname.net or yourname.us or yourname.name etc. are available?
Or maybe you can try firstname-lastname.com or mryourname.com or something similar.
I bought teddemopoulos.com -- even though no one can spell it except for we Demopouloses.
I use Dotster to lookup and buy domain names -- cheap and reliable.
One upon a time oceanfront property was cheap too . . .
