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yup, used Godaddy. It's odd, when you think about it, that the mother of all registrars has a not-to-the-point name, don't you think...?

but I did some searches and they were clearly the biggest registrar out there. One belated discovery issue is that it appears that the private registration feature has to be paid for *each* domain name. Not good. Some other registrars had a fixed fee regardless of the number of domains.

Interestingly, some (paranoid?) folks claim that if you do searches on a name, you will trigger some speculators snatching it up before you do. Hard to believe that this could be easily done, but anyway, you may want to practice searches etc with a bogus name, you never know...


A question for you all: my "firstnamelastname.com" is already taken. But I was thinking that if I did "firstname-Lastname.com" with a hyphen that it would show up just as easily in the searches and looks better on the address and when typing. Thoughts?