On: The importance of having a personal domain name

[dustintrex]

My email is first@last.name. The ".name" domain is oddly underused and often throws people for a loop.

[walrus01 → dustintrex]

I think the vast majority of people don't recognize 98% of the new/novel gTLDs when they see them.

Using an arbitrarily chosen noun:

If I have a taco truck and I put in giant font on the side

BURRITO.NET

or

BURRITO.COM

People will immediately get that it's a website.

If I put BURRITO.NAME on it, very few will.