Would you register a personal .ie?

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mneylon

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If you could register a personal .ie domain, such as yourname.ie OR
yourname.me.ie would you do it?

If *.me.ie were available (or some derivative thereof, though name.ie seems a bit silly) would you use it?
 

Gavin

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I probably would but more in the interest of saving my name, you never know I might be famous soon!
 

louie

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no way........
My name is not catchy enough and as Cormac said, I might be famous one day, so why ruin the good feeling?
 

Cormac

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'What is in a name....?'

i'd register my own name but not for 50ish euro, i'd consider it if it was less than 20. I'm not fussed thou as I have the .com and my name isn't exactly common.
 

grandad

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So none of you have any real interest in your own names?

I wouldn't say that, exactly. I'd be sort of lost without it. I might even have an identity crisis. What would people call me? [don't answer that last - this forum doesn't allow vulgarities :D ]

Seriously though... Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can only register my full name if I'm President, a sitting TD [or election candidate], a solicitor, doctor or the like. Otherwise I'm restricted to my initials followed by digits. "roc01.ie" doesn't look very inspiring.

And what would I use it for? Good if I'm running a blog or have a huge ego, but apart from that.....?
 

mneylon

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Richard

Read my original post... Forget the current rules.
Try to think of a world in which .ie domains were as easy to register as .co.uk
 

grandad

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OK. Current rules forgotten, and domains are being handed out free.

As I said, unless I am running a blog or a personal website [memories of the great early Geocities days...], then I can't think of any use for it. It might be handy from the e-mail perspective, but that's about it.

Anyway, I just landed myself a nice e-mail address [richard at enniskerry dot ie] which is better and more descriptive than richard@oconnor.me :D
 

mneylon

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As I said, unless I am running a blog or a personal website [memories of the great early Geocities days...], then I can't think of any use for it. It might be handy from the e-mail perspective, but that's about it.

If you started blogging some companies would start crying :)
 

grandad

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Yes. You have a point there. My "Former Employers" might cause problems - they are very litigious. Clients would have to be a no-go area in the interests of keeping my company going. The government might complain too [not to mention the White House]. All in all, I think you might be right.

Back to the topic - was/is there any talk of a TLD - .blog [.rant]? That might attract a few personal names!
 

offlicence

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Michele, I'd like myname.ie but nonly if it was about EUR 15 inc VAT, it would be an ego boost but its not worth EUR 45?
 

RedCardinal

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Read my original post... Forget the current rules.
Try to think of a world in which .ie domains were as easy to register as .co.uk

On this topic, what are the current rules? I have my surname registered (not for me, my brother decided he would like to have an email address his-name@hearne.ie).

I had no problems registering it.

I'm a bit too self-concious to but my blog on richard.hearne.ie. The site just redirects to redcardinal (hmmm... actually thinking about it now, I might have done something there...must check)

The other Richard
 

mneylon

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Red - the current rules are quite restrictive, which is part of the reason I raised the matter.

At present you cannot register your full name or even your surname unless you are:

- published author
- artist
- politician
- public figure
- trade as yourself and can really prove it
 

RedCardinal

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I think I just registered it by telling them we wanted to use it for email purposes :)

Just checked what we did and it was quite simple - we just registered our surname as a business name under a limited company and hey presto - IEDR let us regsiter the domain.

Registered 1 year ago.

Richard.
 

Comparison.ie

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I would do it, but only for e-mail. I actually was thinking of this a couple of weeks ago.

It would be quite good to have contact@firsnamelastname.com or something to that effect.

My last name is actually available at Netidentity (http://www.netidentity.com/), so I could have firstname@lastname.com which would be quite good.

I wouldn't register myname.ie, as people would get confused, (as I don't actually live in Ireland, but hope to have a house there someday), and I definately wouldn't register myname.me.uk, I dislike .me.uk domains and .name aswell.
 
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