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New domain suffixes and you
Sooner or later, everybody in the civilized world will need a little piece of cyberspace to call their own. Your web presence will be the way you interface with the world, the place you collect your mail (Oh, are you doing that already?), get your phone calls and promote your interests. It will be where people find you.
But what will you call it? Can your own name be a domain name? That depends. You might find miroslavwoscjewiecz.com is still available, but if you’re John Smith, no such luck. (And if your surname is Google, you’ve got real problems.) You can try registering a “dot.name” domain name, although all the more common surnames have been gobbled up.
One international company has started selling “.ws” web sites; the “ws” stands for (you guessed it!) “web site.” It once stood for the tiny island nation of West Samoa, which graciously agreed to make it available to the world because that country’s 200,000 inhabitants don’t use computers as much as we do here in the U.S.
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