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Interesting perspectives on the Australian issues. Hadn’t really considered those aspects. Thanks for sharing.

Certainly that makes it more difficult and I think requires you to be a bit more diligent in establishing identity. Likely using metadata/keywords and simply creating a lot of content in your field will at least allow people to add “education” or whatever to your name to move you to the top. If the public figure is a bit obscure, viewers may not know the difference, in which case you would have work harder and moving your name up the rankings.

But I’ve never gone the next — and I think important — step of using the name to build a launching pad for my web presence(s). Right now it points to photos of our 2003 sabbatical in Australia.

You’ve added to my summer to-do list. Thanks, I think.

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Good post and a fine reminder. I’ve purchased my name and a variety of domains for my family each and every year that I’ve been online. My children’s domains, at this point, are easy ways to redirect family to photos, and, overtime, will become the public footprints of my kids – their work, their passions, etc. My wife’s domains sit empty – for now. But they’ll be there when SHE and not someone else, needs them.

Luckily – budhunt.com lapsed in ownership from its previous owner – a “marketing expert.” I snapped it up and am very pleased that I did so – I think there’d be lots of confusion between our digital footprints.

Thinking there’s a podcast in telling the story of my family domains. Thanks.

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I probably should have thought more about the domain name when I registered it, but variations can add up quickly – especially year over year. I thought about annoro.com and njtechteacher.com, too. When I first started communicating online with teachers, I was testing the waters. I wasn’t really prepared to put my name out there and came up with njtechteacher. I’ve given thought to having an njtechteacher.com and .org but have not as of now. As others have mentioned, .com is more reflective of commerce. It is also the id most people think of when they type a URL.

At the very least, I’ve changed the landscape of a look up of my name in Google searches over the past year. There used to be one reference that really related to me on an old letter I wrote to the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Now a lookup reveals a different picture. Most every reference is what I’d like to see reflected about me.

It’s a nice little video and well worth sharing with students, as well.

Ann

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First, most of our students already have digital identities albeit MySpace, FaceBook, etc. This domain was meant to hopefully guide them toward crafting a more professional online presence, even if it’s only the equivalent of a 21st Century business card. There was discussions about using .com vs .name or whatever, and we opted with .coms and .infos for 2 reasons, the .com because if they every wanted to use it to help start a business or some professional venture, and .info because the .com of the name was taken and they were having a $0.99 special on domains

Second, the reality that ‘cyber-squatting’ occurs and why not own your own domain rather than have it go to God know what site that you have no control over. For the $7.00s most people spend for a coffee and donut they can say what appears when ‘Googled’ even if it’s blank.

Finally, another aspect of this that wasn’t shown clearly in the video was how a closed social network was also created with the accounts of the students for them to keep in contact. Again, I know students are already doing this themselves, this just gives one place were classmates can be reached if they want to keep in touch.

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I made the jump to my own domain for much the same reasons as Stephen. I was uncomfortable having my online identity owned by someone else.

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Not sure how/why domain costs vary so much but sites like godaddy and 10dollars.ca are usually reasonable and I think can offer anyone domains. I’m also not sure which level is most appropriate. I know Stephen Downes mentions he preferred not to have a .com name since it evokes ideas of commerce.

Dave,
While you may feel a domain has little value, it may be a way to simply be a portal for all your other activity. I think being able to control what others see and read about you is the main point. Even if it’s not to gain employment. It’s a pretty cheap way to be able to gain a greater degree of control over your identity.

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