Question: What Was Your First Domain Name?

by Lesley Posted on July 27, 2010

We’re feeling a little curious today, so we have a couple questions for our community.

  • What was the first domain name you registered?
  • Do you still have/use it?
  • Do you even remember what your first domain purchase was? ;)

We’d love to hear from you! We’ll also randomly select a comment and award the poster $25 in account credit, so happy commenting!

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  • Ali Aamir

    First friend, first love can never be forgotten, and I m so lucky that I found the name.com from the begging of my journey, So I can be say that name.com is the first & last registrar of mine, during these days, I m seeing that the working of name.com is “one step ahead from others” name.com really doing the hard working with honesty and punctually, they come and achieve the world! Like us………..
    Go ahead………
    My first domain was http://www.brainshost.com,

  • Mr. David Nelson Jr

    Attention,
    I apologize for intruding into your privacy, especially by contacting you through this means for a business transaction of this magnitude, but due to its seriousness and necessity, it became necessary for me to seek for your assistance. My name is Mr. David Nelson Jr, one of the investment managers of Aviva Investors. Aviva Investors is a business consulting firm, offering business advisory services worldwide. Recently we have been confronted with the task of investing funds for our investors with Aviva which runs into billions of British Pound Sterling and hundreds of millions of pounds was made as profits for our investors but sincerely, I secretly extracted 1.2% from the Excess Maximum Return Capital Profit on each of our investors profit margin there by making a total of £28,000,000.00 (Twenty eight million British pound Sterling). I personally cannot lay claim to this fund because of my position as one of the investment managers and I decided to seek your partnership to co-operate with me in laying claim to the fund. Our sharing modalities will be negotiated between us. In View of this foregoing issue, I look forward to receive your response so that I can intimate you with further details.

    Regards,
    Mr. David Nelson Jr.and Mrs.Lisa Kilpatrick
    mrdvnl@aol.com
    kilpatricklisa77@yahoo.co.uk
    +233 266 176 545
    +233 241 101 653
    Investment Project Partners

  • namedotcom

    And our comment winner of the $25 credit is Dustin Overbeck (comment on Facebook)! Congrats Dustin and huge thanks to everyone who commented! This was a fun one, so keep an eye out for more questions like these in the future. :)

  • http://twitter.com/Cesarbsilva César Midão
  • http://www.al3abm.com Alsaggaf

    My first domain was http://www.up3s.com

  • http://twitter.com/itssri itsSri

    The first domain name I registered was itsSri.com and also the .net and .org variations in January 2005. My first transaction at Name.com was also the same domain set when I transferred them here, in January 2006.

    Of course, I still have it and how can I ever forget it :P – it's my brand name that was coined using best branding practices.
    Short,
    6 letter
    2 words – a common word its and other a popular proper name word Sri
    2 syllables
    Have all major TLDs
    No TM issues

    itsSri means 2 things.
    (1) it's Sri (sri is short for Srinivasa, my name) – unforgettable, isn't it?
    (2) The name ITSSRI expands to Information Technology Services, Systems, Resources Integrator – which neatly sums up my business – cool, ain't it?

  • idouglas

    In mid 2000 I bought idouglas.com from a short-lived multi-level domain name scheme called ijoe.com (see FAQ at link)
    http://web.archive.org/web/20000818223229/http:…

  • http://twitter.com/visibleblog anjan bhushan

    “OUR” First name was edukan.com meaning online shop in Hindi and Urdu.Three of friends paid for the domain back in 2000.We registered it for 2 years.Idea was to start an online shop.It never materialized.So we let it drop.We registered it via domaindirect.com. Domain si still registered and owned by a domainer.
    Now I own more than 100 domain.Major portion of domain is with your sister firm domainsite.

  • http://www.facebook.com/orozco.david David Orozco

    My first domain was BAJALOADS.com in 1996 where i loved to share music, the bad things is that i didn't knod that doing that was illegal. But after that I turned it into a music review blog. I lost it after no having money to renew it. but with my new projects I'm doing good enough to keep on bussiness

  • Joveyhong

    My first domain name is yejie.org…

  • tests100.com

    My first domain name is tests100.com that registered in 2009.

    Now i still use it.

  • http://asif2bd.info Asif2BD

    Actually My first domain was DownloadBD.info i bought it locally in beginning of 2005 probably. But I did not have its control, so i lost it. The first useful domain i bought with control is from name.com which is probably haveallfree.com

  • http://asif2bd.info Asif2BD

    Actually My first domain was DownloadBD.info i bought it locally in beginning of 2005 probably. But I did not have its control, so i lost it. The first useful domain i bought with control is from name.com which is probably haveallfree.com

  • AJ

    Mine was HellboundSouljas.com back in 2007
    it was a gaming community, don't have the name anymore.

  • http://kya.nu Kya

    I don't think I will ever forget my first domain, even though I no longer have it, my first domain was magick-me.org which was a personal website and blog. I brought the domain in 2003ish when I knew very little about them and paid $80 for two years PLUS $12 a month. I can't believe I was so silly at the time and thought I was getting a good deal. I was worried about dodgy dealers out there. Thankfully I am a lot wiser now and know where to go for my domain fix. :D

  • Gfxclass

    My first domain was gfxclass.com which was taken by me back in 2006

  • Wombat Boy

    imageek.net in 1998. No longer use it or own it.

  • Sumeet

    My first domain i registered was apunkaworld.com .. Yeah I still use it for my personal blog :)
    My first domain purchase was a long journey though. Had been thinking to hit up and get one but since I didn't own a credit card, I had to wait. I then worked for some one for some dollars and asked him to buy me a domain instead of giving me the money
    Thats how i received my first domain..
    Today I have over 100 domains, but still apunkaworld.com is my most favorite due to obvious reasons

  • http://www.harakim.net Hara Kim

    I believe first one I got was icedincome.com when I first started to get into html. I no longer have it though.

  • http://twitter.com/webdev_ru WebDev Russia

    My first domain was 1ns.com in late 1998. Now I want to make domain registration panel with name.com API for russian users who don't know English:)

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  • Anonymous

    I am a blogger and using blogspot to write blogs and thinking to buy my own domain. I don’t have any domain still but thinking to buy one. But confusing about the domain name and lots more thing.

    • Anonymous

      Hey Daniel, you should totally purchase your own domain! If you visit http://www.name.com and type in your search terms (maybe your first and last name, or subject of what your blog is about) you’ll be able to see if the domain name you want is available, or if someone has already registered it. Once you find an available domain click checkout and you are on your way (you will have to set up an account). Then I’d recommend using PageZen to get your blog started, PageZen (www.name.com/website-builder) is a really easy drag and drop platform that even has a ‘blog’ setting where you can create your 1 page blog. Best part, one page PageZen is always free and requires no additional hosting. If you buy a domain and choose not to use PageZen, you’ll need to host the domain (http://www.name.com/services/hosting) which basically means you have to purchase a ‘place’ to store the files on your site. If you go with our hosting, you can use Fantastico to set up a word press blog.

      Does that help get you started? Let me know if you have any more specific questions :)

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