What's a Better Domain Name for Personal Branding?

When it comes to personal branding, having your own domain name is an important component. Unless you have an uncommon last name, though, the chances are that yourlastname.com is long gone. There are other top level domains, like .me and .name, but is it better to go with one of those or stick with .com?

Alex writes:

My question is pretty simple, if perhaps a little boring. Which email address is better? (More professional, easier to remember, better for personal branding.)




I couldn't get "mylastname.com" so I chose a ".me" instead. What do you think? I'm designing new business cards (I'm an actor) and I'm curious which looks better - will people think I work for a company called "mylastname"? Or will people be thrown off by the ".me" versus ".com" too much? I feel like with the release of the new TLD's, people will be getting more and more used to seeing things that are different than .com/net/org.

Have some advice for Alex? Post it below!

