Comments on: Mastering One’s Own Domain, and No, This is Not a Seinfeld Reference

Another typo: stock evaluation. The correct term is "stock valuation."

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@Gutsy, Yeah, you were only able to get your own name as a domain 'cos almost nobody's named Gutsy Living.

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Thankfully I was able to get my own name as a domain name and I'm very happy about that. I also got my theme as my domain name for my blog.

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"If you truly want to be free of the tyranny of third parties owning your means of contacting people the ONLY way to do this is to collect email addresses, and to do this you need web forms, whic...

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makes sense to have your own domain and perhaps microsites for each book.

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I think it's very important to have an online home, but the address is not very important. The common wisdom among bloggers is to have your own URL (not necessarily your name), but I think this i...

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Isn't anyone tired of hearing 'find us on fb', 'like us on fb'... Whether it is a toilet paper ad to a diaper ad to a cooking show. No I will not like you on fb, thank you. Has this like button d...

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Hmm... What you all seem to be skimming over here is the technical issues around contact management. Sure, having your own domain is the best policy, but it is far easier, both from a technical a...

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If you use the excellent WordPress platform to run your own personal domain, you can use a plugin like Wordbooker to automatically push your blog posts over to your personal or 'official' Faceboo...

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There are hundreds out there with similar name as mine. So me being able to get my own .com or .co.uk domain is far away thing. However, I would still go for my own domain (currently working on t...

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