Comments on: The Importance of Buying Your Own Name’s Domain

By: Amy Taggart

Amy Taggart — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:36:42 +0000

I actually bought amytaggart.com and amysuzannetaggart.com the other day…I couldn’t agree more that if they are available…snag them!!

Great blog Sandra! I’ll be stopping by often! =8-)

Amy

By: Sandra De Freitas

Sandra De Freitas — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:11:59 +0000

Hi Marcia,

bummer! At least you know they will be using the site name for good!

You can:
1) purchase the domain with a hyphen in it your-name.com
2) purchase the domain name with your middle initial in it
3) find out when they domain name expires. I search the domain name at http://www.internic.ca. Once you have done that click the “whois” button under .com to find out when it expires. If they don’t renew it you can purchase it (sometimes it takes 42 days for this to clear out of their account before you can buy it).

I hope that helps.

By: Marcia Francois

Marcia Francois — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:06:50 +0000

What if the .com is already taken?

Turns out there’s a real estate person with my name who has the .com