After careful consideration I went ahead and purchased the .co.uk domain name of my full name, Tom Birmingham. With no immediate plans to develop the domain in to a website, you may wonder why I actually bought it?
To start off with — it’s cheap, £7 per 2 years (registered with 123-reg.co.uk). It prevents that horrible feeling you get when you know you’ve done something wrong. If, one day, I had woken up to find the domain had been registered by someone else, I would have been angry at myself. My advice – get your full name domain if it’s available, and while it’s cheap. Domain prices are only going up with increasing global population and growing internet usage.
In future, if I want to focus more on a UK audience I can develop tombirmingham.co.uk in to a seperate website with tailored content. You’re probably thinking it’s going to be British slang, and you would be right! Joking aside, it could also be used on business cards or for marketing