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What Do You Do With a Personal Domain?
bmerr71 writes "I bought my own domain name to use as a self-promotion tool. I use a subdomain, 'profile.mydomain.com', which I selectively put on my email signatures to link to my linkedin profile. I also loaded up Google Apps to use for email. But when you go directly to my domain name, there is nothing there. I didn't want GoDaddy getting ad revenue off my name (and it doesn't look very professional), so I killed the ad page, but it seems like I should be able to put something up on my main page. But, I am not interesting in blogging, I do not want too much personal information up there, and I do not want to spend a lot of money (none, if possible). Are there any free apps that I can load up on my domain to fill the blank space? What do non-bloggers do with their personal domains?"
If you have nothing to say, perhaps it's foolish.
I use my personal domain for my "good" email address and also to host personal stuff like photo albums, avatars, bookmarks and such.
Call me old fashioned, but I like to keep my private stuff away from corporations, so I try to avoid photobucket, flickr etc.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Maybe he wanted to protect the name from abuse by his many enemies?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
The fact that you have nothing to post on your site tells me you probably don't need one. Not trying to be snarky, but why grope around for stuff to post? If there's anything you really want to say to the world you'll probably think of it. Until then why merely fill space?
indeed, that's what has kept me employed for the last seven years. not any job site, not any recruiting firm, but contractor and now full time work from someone at the hiring company using a search engine that returned my resume.
and certainly not sites like linkedin, useless and lame
I'm in a similar situation as the submitter of this story, and I think you're dumb to take offense or have so little imagination.
First, just because I don't have much to put up on the main page doesn't mean that there's nothing there at all. I have some photos hosted and stuff and you just need to know the URL to get to them.
The main thing I use it for is email, which I think is a perfectly reasonable reason to have a domain name. Gosh, that sounds just like the submitter.
If your domain doesn't have a logical target audience given its name, ie. it isn't something like "itsallaboutcars.com" then for the love of God don't put random stuff up there just to fill space. The best that could happen is it gets indexed by search engines and people looking for something specific end up on your page randomly which contains no unique content. Similar to database design, if its redundant it doesn't need to exist. If your domain name does have an obvious relavent market, how about finding someone that has that interest that is willing to share the costs of hosting with you?
Everybody has an open-source personality in that they tend to pick and choose the aspects and mannerisms they like and discard those they don't like. Personalities aren't born, they're made.
"I bought my own canvas to use as a self-promotion tool. I removed the plastic wrapper. I also nailed some tacks into the sides to strengthen it. But when you go to look at it, there is nothing there. I didn't want Joe's Art Supplies getting ad revenue off my name (and it doesn't look very professional), so I sanded off the logo, but it seems like I should be able to put something on the canvas itself. But, I am not interesting in painting, I do not want too much personal information on it, and I do not want to spend a lot of money on paints, charcoals, or pastels(none, if possible). Are there any things that I can put on my canvas to fill the blank space? What do non-painters do with their personal canvases?"
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
Put a big picture of Summer Glau on the page.
What more do you need?
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