Yay! I own my name!
by Jim on Jul.18, 2008, under Internets
Just a few minutes ago I registered jamesmorris.org. I never believed I could own a high level domain for my own name, seeing as it’s so popular. There’s just too many of us!
I guess I am an organisation now? Sweet…
All the site will do for now is redirect you here, but I guess it will come in handy for email. I know, it was a spur of the moment thing, but owning your name matters 
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July 18th, 2008 on 10:54 pm
I was about to swear at you for managing to buy ‘namey’ websites, but then remembered that I do actually have mine.. duuuuh
July 19th, 2008 on 5:43 pm
Yeah i was quite lucky also, bit mines not top level just a .co.uk
lucky you!
July 20th, 2008 on 1:32 am
Yep, I just got mine as well (about 3 weeks ago). The funny thing is that I didn’t purchase my name domain until I had already owned about 150 others… guess it just shows my priorities ehh?
Troy
July 20th, 2008 on 7:56 pm
oh congrats for that, having your own name as website is a nice feeling, i remember when i registered stylusouls when i searched for my name it was taken and i was seriously disappointed
July 22nd, 2008 on 5:36 am
Congrats! I’m still waiting for my .com to expire and seriously, I have pretty uncommon name…
I’ve heard lots of nonsense about Google counting .org sites higher than similar .com domains all other factors absent.
July 23rd, 2008 on 4:47 pm
Nice grab on your name, that is a great one. My name is not so common so I think I could get it, but yours I would have thought would be taken by someone.
July 24th, 2008 on 3:47 pm
Mine has been taken long time ago, I should have bought it when it was available, but at that time I didn’t see it useful, godaddy was rubbing it in my face all the time “you name is available”…
July 24th, 2008 on 6:05 pm
Nice pickup. Was it a domain that just expired?
August 7th, 2008 on 3:05 am
Gratz.
I knew a guy called Michael Jackson. Seriously. Fat chance he’s got to own a domain in his name
August 11th, 2008 on 3:03 am
I had to shell out $900 to buy my name in the .com form. I think it was worth it as I have earned much more than that from the blog I placed there. But I do think it’s pretty stupid to have all these domain squatters buying them all up and they have no reason to own it in the first place.
August 11th, 2008 on 11:04 am
You did it at a right time because I haven’t my name empty. Someone else already have registered it. That’s too bad but I am happy that you have owned your own.
August 14th, 2008 on 9:43 pm
Nice, I am lucky because I have a weird name and nobody else would have it, so I was able to get the .com version of my own name…thanks for good info on the blog, it’s a good read, I’ll be back.