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domain name with your own name? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago by neutron@thelemmy.club to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So I got hold of a domain that shows my exact full name. I thought it would be useful for showing up as "professional" when working in IT and sending resumes.

I got some mail forwarded using the domain registrar. I also made a small static website, which only has hello world for now but soon will get the contents filled up.

But then... what? I suppose I can host anything I want, but then there's the whole "real name - gotta look professional" aspect that makes me weary of hosting a Lemmy instance, for example, when the domain without my name attached wouldn't.

I suppose having personal domains were cool in the 90s where people were barely learning about "the internets". Not so anymore?

Is there a usefulness in having a domain name with your real name attached on this age?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL

3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

This is so useful! In this post I already knew all abbreviations but I would love this everywhere. Is it reading context for cases where multiple things can be substituted? I'm pretty sure it isn't the Magic game people refer to when they keep referencing mtg in threads regarding us politics

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