Hey people, need a little bit of help here. I’ve tried to get a proper domain name for my own blog…but i couldn’t find any suitable one.
www.alvinlim.com has been taken
www.alvinlim.net belongs to one property guy in Singapore
www.alvinlim.name ? www.alvinlim.biz ? www.alvinlim.net.my (needs to send in my photocopied identity card =_=) …and it sounds like www.tm.net.my.
.com/.net/.org/.us/.info/ .biz/.name
I didn’t know they actually have .info, .us, .biz and .name before this. All of those do sound weird.
Gosh, i’m clueless.
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August 12, 2007 at 5:27 am
jamy
I found a lot of tech guys use this kind of format :
http://www.blog.their names.com
eg in yr case it would be
http://www.blog.alvinlim.com
or you want to have it this way :
http://www.alvinlimblog.com
August 12, 2007 at 12:00 pm
cirnelle
I vote for http://www.alvinlim.thinker.com
Hmmm…. Too long. Okay with http://www.therealalvin.com Hahahahah!
August 12, 2007 at 12:04 pm
cirnelle
Oops! One more thing… congratulations on making onto the Sunday Metro of the Star Newspaper.
August 12, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Alvin
jamy, the first one sounds weird. http://www.alvinlimblog.com looks better. hahaha.
cirnelle, wat bout http://www.alvin-thinker.com ? http://www.therealalvin.com sounds like there alavin. hahaha.
oh ya, thanks! received some sms-es and phone calls bout the paper thingy. it’s not the full version though. yet to show the interview and photo shoot stuff (will hv the photo shooting session tomorrow =_= …sighs..publicity).
August 14, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Sunflower
http://www.blog.alvinlim.com wouldn’t be possible because that uses alvinlim.com as a domain, and you already said alvinlim.com isn’t available. The “blog” in front is a subdomain. (Like breaking up parts of your domain and using them for different purposes.) Same with http://www.blog.alvinlim.thinker.com — you’d need to get thinker.com as a domain name first.
alvinlim.info is quite appropriate I think since this blog gives info about you
Generally,
.com is supposed to be for companies/commercial purposes
.org for organisations (associations, societies, NGOs, etc)
.net for network-related organisations/activities (I guess IT-related stuff)
Malaysia is quite strict about this classification. For example, if you want to register .com.my, you need to show the company’s registration forms with the Registrar of Companies (ROC). But for plain .com domains, it’s open to anyone who wants to register.
August 14, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Alvin
hi Sunflower, thanks for dropping by
yeap, the pre-fix blog means i need to own alvinlim.com, same goes for thinker.com….which i think is n/a.
will try for alvinlim.info
thanks for your suggestion!