Well it’s going to be a personal site to attract some clients, have my portfolio up, and I’ll also be writing articles pertaining to CSS. So just something easy for people. I’d do RyanRee.se I I could find a great host that offers it. My usual BlueHost.com doesn’t. Which is disappointing. Their interface is amazing and have always been good to me.
That’s an international domain, it’s Sweden’s extension. The link above points to the wiki on it. It doesn’t look like it’s open to international registration and it’s only available to specific registrars. Sometimes some of them you have to go through specific places to get the country code TLDs, even though they are open to international registration. Each one can have their own rules and regulations around them, any rules and regulations they want. Some are open to full international registration and available on namecheap or godaddy or bluehost, like .io which is actually British Indian Ocean Territory.
I probably should have came up with a better one, but that was just the first one that popped in my mind.
Here is a full list of ccTLDs
Yes, that’s who I use. Their control panel is very straightforward and easy to use.
Yeah, another thing that can be extremely frustrating is a lot of them don’t allow private registration. Which if it’s for your personal freelancing business it’s fine, but if you do anything where people may try to retaliate (like people being banned from community websites), it’s good to keep everything privately registered. *.io is one of them.
The .io tld seems a bit expensive ( the company I use want $93 for ryanreesese.io ); but there are a lot more choices now as there are a load of new tld’s released.
Even with all the tld’s there are now people are still cyber squatting; I would think a lot must have spent nearly as much now on renewing the domain name as they are trying to sell it for
Cyber squatting annoys me because I am in the same boat as you; all the ideas I come up with are taken and I will probably have some strange name but it may be memorable. Who in their right mind would buy a domain name for $700 when there are so many other options.
I suppose when the web started people had their company names and needed the domain name to go with it; but now people can make up a company name after they have found the domain name. So cyber squatting has less of an impact.
It’s a bit awkward if you ask me. ReeceDesign is better.
However, I still think you should be more creative. Think ahead—if this grows into a company with employees (it might, you know) it would be preferably not to have something so personal. Look at a company like Adobe: it’s named after the little river behind the house where they started the company in a garage (if I remember right). Or “Google”. It’s a word now.
I don’t want to go over two words, so anything with Reese is basically out since I would want the 2nd word to help describe what I’m doing. And all that I like are taken.
Thoughts? CleanCoding is only open for bidding. I got fooled.