Do anyone use there names as URL's?

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Just wondering this as I have just added www.StevenWhite.me to my list of owned URLs earlier

I've set it up for redirection to my normal site for now but was wondering about making a portfolio site with my best shots on then keep my others for my other site

Does anyone use anything similar as domain names?
 
i do, and i've seen lots of others about too !!

my site is in progress at the moment, or else i'd show ya :)

.co.uk is my suffix of choice though
 
Me too :)
Far easier for people to remember your name ;)

Also, when I get work printed in the local rag, and it says "Photograph by Trev Rich" They are going to google my name, which has earnt me work before :)
 
Me too, I've owned a .net and .com address of my surname for many years now. Never bothered with the .co.uk as some cybersquatter has sat on it. As Trev says it easier for people to find you and I can have a simple email like ray@... etc :D
 
I used to have my surname.net, but it was one character removed from a big US cable ISP and I used to get a massive amount of misaddressed email as a consequence, as well as a massive amount of misaddressed spam.

Let that one lapse many years past, now have surname.me, which I'm not actually using for very much at the moment. I do plan to put a site with someof my efforts on it eventually, just haven't got round to writing the php or the database to live behind it.
 
I own mattfranklinphotography .com and .co.uk
 
no, i don't use my name as my url... mainly because i don't overly like my name. So, i went for www.creativelycaptured.co.uk instead.

Only do photography as a hobby, perhaps it would be different if you were trying to earn a living out of it. I'm not in that league yet. lol.
 
I do too - but I also have a domain name of the initials of the company - awp - impossible to get nowadays though! :) www.awp.co.uk
 
yeah mine is andy-terry.co.uk i wanted andyterry.co.uk but some nob who isnt very interesting and hasnt updated his site in years is using it.
 
Mine is my name and I use any number of info@, legal@, prices@, contact@ etc for email forwarding.
 
I use www.robgeorgeson.com mainly because when I was trying to think of a nice interesting catchy name for my website I couldn't think of anything. Luckily I have a fairly non-common surname so any google searches for my name will find me at the top of the list.

Also with my domain name you can put any word followed by @robgeorgeson.com and it will be sent to my hotmail account which is also just my name.
 
Just checked my name.....

the .com is taken but the .co.uk isn't, hmmmm might get it
 
I've got surname.org for family , a .com for photo & a .co.uk for work stuff.

It makes personel mail much easier fred@bloggs.org etc, had it for about 10 years now :)
 
it's really disconcerting when someone has already taken it . . .
 
I was trying to think of something other than my current beeja.co.uk to play with, but i dont really want FirsnameSurnamePhotography etc

PicJa is my only idea so far! xD

Trev Rich said:
Nowt wrong with smith :thumbs:
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I just wish it was less common! At college we had a number, surname and first intial as the login.. because there was so many J Smiths my login was 19SmithJ - 19!!
 
Jacob. said:
I was trying to think of something other than my current beeja.co.uk to play with, but i dont really want FirsnameSurnamePhotography etc

PicJa is my only idea so far! xD


I just wish it was less common! !!
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We're the only family in the UK, everybody with the same surname is a direct relation :clap:
 
Me too - http://www.davefrost.co.uk I also have thefrosties.com & thefrosties.co.uk which were going to be for a "family" site that I never ever got round to doing anything with.

The davefrost.co.uk site is currently just a quick photoblog, but at some point I'll shift that over to a photography sub domain and do something else with the main bit (if I ever find the time and enthusiasm).
 
I don't because no one can spell my surname.

I think any URL you choose should be catchy on the ear, and not open to mispelling.
 
Damn my common name. Every permutation of my name, my name + photo / photography, my initials, initials + photo, etc were all taken. Except for my least favourite, and longest possible URL.

Most people who go there are just following a link, or have a business card with it on, so it doesn't seem to be too much of a problem.
 
Someone had the .co.uk of my first name and surname together but they were nice enough to leave the .com for me :D

I've had domains for years now and never thought to get mine until I bought my DSLR, these devices do strange things to you.
 
I don't do it and don't like them. I feel (personally) that as a marketing tool, your domain should not feel small. I think FirstnameSurname.Whatever feels very one man bandish. It's just a personal thing, and some of you will remember the debate / problems I had choosing a shop name.

G.
 
I do, and having a pretty unusual name it gets No1 position on a Google name search.
 
CT said:
I do, and having a pretty unusual name it gets No1 position on a Google name search.
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Type my name into google and the top 4 google listings all lead to either my website, or me by a degree of separation, though my website url does not mention my name.

I've got quite an unusual surname so decided to use it.

www.danielporrett.co.uk

weather i like it or not is a different matter
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If you said your url to me ie not written down (and I consider my self a reasonable speller) I can see at least 2 possible mispellings.
 
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