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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?"
Get a personality and what to put on your web page comes naturally.
If you have to ask what to do with one... why did you get it? I've had a personal domain for many years now and it runs my web server (Apache on a Linux server in my living room) and I use it for personal email too. I've got all sorts of things on the web server. It sounds to me like you bought a domain name just because you thought it would be cool, even though you don't have any actual use for it. Maybe you should save your money and let the domain name go to someone who has an actual use for it. As it is, it sounds like you're basically just a cyber squatter. Lame.
I registered fuckthenavy.net because .com and .org were taken.
both on slashdot and on the planet
FUCK Joomla. Fuck that shitty piece of shit. I can't speak for Drupal, and I can't speak for the bulk of the other frameworks out there but whatever you do stay the fuck away from Joomla.