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There's always the .pizza domain now. Joes.pizza is not available but variations like nycJoes.pizza for $20 tho I think the renewal will be way more. 

Gotta think renewal price, not an deal for only the first year, unless you are planning it to be disposable.

On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 3:56 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:03 PM Karen Lewellen via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>  
>> I have a personal website, that I originally set up using my name, 
>> instead of  the name of my production company which  is g. a. f. 
>> Entertainment.  I do have the domain gafentertainment.com but it is not 
>> hosted anywhere.
>> Lewellen is welsh, and there are several different spellings.
> 
> All of the Welsh Llewllyns I know (a few, from my wife's history) have four Ls and a Y in their spelling.
> (But then I'm not one to talk. There are more Leibowitz's than Leibovitch's out there, but they all trace the same Romanian roots.)
> 
> I got leibovitch.ca and evanleibovitch.com ages ago but have never really used them. The latter I may keep for defensive purposes just in case I really piss someone off; I'm getting old but there's still time.
> A surprising number of domains are unused and just kept for defensive purposes (ie, I won't use it but I don't want anyone else to have it either).
>  
>> Imagine my surprise   though learning there is another karen lewellen.
>> My own site being
>> www.karenlewellen.com
>> Meant the other person ended up creating itskarenlewellen.com instead.
> 
> Or she could have done karenlewellen.ca (if she was Canadian), karenlewellen.co.uk (if British), karenlelellen.org or karenlewellen.something-else
> 
> That's the whole point of the new TLDs, dot-com doesn't have to be the make-or-break TLD anymore (though it is still the preferred default).
> My solution these days to unavailable first-choice domains is to add punctuation, for instance karen-lewellen.com is available and works fine.
>> Do not get me started on the gmail problems, I still get her stuff
> 
> That's the biggest flaw of domains versus search. Search engines can add context such as location.
> 
> There is only one joespizza.com in the world and it's in Los Angeles. The most famous Joe's Pizza had to settle for joespizzanyc.com because the California place registered first.
> 
> But searching "Joe's Pizza near me" will almost always come up with something more useful wherever you are, when used here offering one in Brampton (joesbigpizza.ca)
>  
>> When the nonprofit organization I worked for first chose a name  the idea 
>> was to hype the name of our flagship radio series, Curtain Up!
>> As we distributed Curtain Up!  our founder decided curtain up distribution 
>> was  a fine name..but this was before we had a web presence.
>> giving my work email address is quite a dance,  our site is
>> www.curtainupdistribution.org
>> ahem.
> 
> Domain names are the least of this organization's problems, as a casual search reveals the term "curtain up" is used in major contexts within the London and Broadway theatre scenes.
> Good and distinct naming for an organization is way more off-topic and out of scope than this thread has already evolved. Any domain problems here are symptoms and not causes.
>> My point is that there really can be far more than vanity in a domain 
>> name, especially  when you want to be found, and fund raise, and so forth.
> 
> You're confusing domain names with corporate identity.
> 
> A domain name is just a tool, not the identity, except for those few and diminishing companies whose domain name IS the company name (such as "pets.com").
> Creating a functional corporate identity, which includes but is not limited to branding, is a much bigger deal than the domain name chosen.
> 
> - Evan
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