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?
I have issues where companies won’t let me register because ‘you can’t have your last name as the @lastname’. They don’t trust it or whatever…I dunno
They have no issues trying to mail me their spam fliers but won’t let me use it to communicate with them. Kinda fucky…but yes it is more of a that’s cool moment.