Need ideas

Yeah, I guess you’re right about the .com if you’re targetting small businesses.

I’m not sure why .io is trendy, it just is. Easy to remember (at least for a geek I/O), it’s shorter, and you-dont-have-every-english-word-or-phrase-taken-like.com

Blog post by name.com.

RyanDesigning.com is available and it rhymes.

I’ve always used Bluehost and they are a great host, although they have limited domains. What other good hosts are there that offer more options?

NameCheap.com, not sure about their hosting. I believe in keeping Domain Registration/DNS and hosting separate.

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.

Have you personally used that? Again, they don’t have .se

I probably want to do the RyanRee.se option. RyanDesigning has a lot of domains similar to it and it would be easy for clients to go to the wrong one.

I could just register somewhere that offers .se and transfer it to bluehost I guess?

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.

That’s frustrating that it isn’t international. It’s nearly impossible to find a unique domain to use these days…

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. :frowning:

Looks like .se is out of the question.

.se requires Swedish personal identification number. I’ll think all day about a new domain. Thanks for your help mawburn I’ll keep you updated.

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 :stuck_out_tongue:

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.

A couple of ides from a tld search:
ryanreesese.biz
ryanreesese.solutions
ryanreesese.exposed LOL
ryanreesese.cool

Thanks for the help! Went to godaddy.com and they offer a lot of variations based on what you enter.

How do you all feel about this?

ReeseCoding.com? Insinuates that I sell coding services, and also will have coding articles like CSS (and I can branch out.)

Apologies for the double post. Also CleanCoding.com. Thoughts on that.

My username is part my name and what I do.

s wheel = my name.
design = I design and code web pages.

You could try:

reesedesigns
ryancodes
ryanreesewritescode
reesedoesdesigns
reesedoescode
codesofreese
designsofreese

That sort of thing.

edit: looks like cleancoding is taken, dunno about the above.

immaculatecoding.com
codedclean.com
ReeseCode.com
ReeseCoding.com
PrimeCoding.com

Come up with this so far. Appreciate the ideas.

It’s also kind of evil. Check this out: http://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/

Yes, it’s a display of pure greed and nastiness. It’s a pity it’s allowed.

RyanDesigning.com is available and it rhymes.

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.

Reece isn’t even my last name though!

I was t hinking actually to go with this (I even used a portmanteaur to help generate more ideas)

ImmaculateCoding.com
Edit-(CodeLabratory.com?!?!?) Thoughts?

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.

I really do want to apologize for all the extra posting. A moderator can close this thread though if they deem fit. I ended up on CodeFundamentals.com

Searched through nearly 200 words trying all sorts of different combinations. I’m happy with what I got. Time to start the coding!

Congratulations Ryan! Thread closed