Ginner Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 When I first accessed the web a few years ago (and after the initial wide eyed burst of looking up all sorts of rubbish : favourite groups/teams/shops/porn etc etc), during a (very) bored moment I tried typing my name into the IE address bar (with www and .com either side) to see what came up. Sure enough the site existed but was fairly dull, created by a fledgling poet/artist. Not especially famous, and not particulary interesting (to me). Now I assumed that most people would have probably done a search for their 'own' site at some point in their surfing history. However a straw poll of 10 of my workmates found that NO ONE had ever done this and, moreover, most found it a little odd/sad that I had. I know this probably gets classed as a particulary inane use of www, but I was curious, and was surprised that no one else had done the same. Has anyone on here ever searched for their namesake's website (assuming you haven't created one yourself), and if so, were there any interesting results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igm1 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 http://www.ianmitchell.com Comes up with the guitarist for the Bay City Rollers lol and also the Ian Mitchell band who I might try and see on tour http://www.ianmitchell.co.uk isn't used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Maiden Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 nope no one has my name. I have registered one for my onine name but haven't had much use out of it. Moon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazB Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I have my name as my website, so it's in use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genesiscouch Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 errrr....... | v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Originally posted by Ginner When I first accessed the web a few years ago (and after the initial wide eyed burst of looking up all sorts of rubbish : favourite groups/teams/shops/porn etc etc), during a (very) bored moment I tried typing my name into the IE address bar (with www and .com either side) to see what came up. Sure enough the site existed but was fairly dull, created by a fledgling poet/artist. Not especially famous, and not particulary interesting (to me). Now I assumed that most people would have probably done a search for their 'own' site at some point in their surfing history. However a straw poll of 10 of my workmates found that NO ONE had ever done this and, moreover, most found it a little odd/sad that I had. I know this probably gets classed as a particulary inane use of www, but I was curious, and was surprised that no one else had done the same. Has anyone on here ever searched for their namesake's website (assuming you haven't created one yourself), and if so, were there any interesting results? i did,turns out we altered the whole course of british history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidster Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Interesting..... Every combination i put came up with a web site, from a safari diary in Namibia to an excellent photographer in America. Ohh, and i got redirected to a blue dog site... don't know what they're trying to say?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToryCynic Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 .co.uk: Get redirected to a site selling domains .com: Somebody's blog. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanR Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 NetIdentity have snapped up a lot of the <surname>.net style domains, including mine. However, they are nice enough to resell individual email addresses on these domains, and it's one of these that I use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2J Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 .com in my name comes up with a map of Sheffield City Centre .co.uk doesn't exist .net comes up with a site under contruction The first one is kinda disturbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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