First Name Dot Com
So I started to wonder today about who might have been the first to grab their first name as a dot com and if the original owners still had them.
I tried a few names at the office and got a few The site soon and the placeholders for “If you want to buy this site…”.
I also found one production (?) company when looking up Ginger, but I rather doubt that they were the original owners of ginger.com
My one promising lead was for Leah which has ” Sorry! This site has been closed. ” however the graphics look promising. I then did a whois look up:
Domain Name: LEAH.COM
Created on…………..: Wed, Apr 10, 1996
Expires on…………..: Tue, Apr 11, 2006
Record last updated on..: Mon, Jan 26, 2004
1996 is early in net years when last month may seem like an eternity in a constantly updating world, but it’s still not that long ago. I wondered if there wasn’t an earlier Leah owner.
At any rate, I was not much closer to finding out if any original name holders were still around.
What about you? Try looking up your first name dot com. What do you see? Or, do you know someone who is the original owner of their first name dot com? Tell them to post here!
I have my firstname.org
.com and .net are free as well. I guess it pays having an unusual name. 
Comment by Mahangu — February 22, 2005 @ 10:54 pm
LOL well, that’s just almost cheating!
Still who knows, your name could be the next “Michael”!
Comment by Sometimes Silent — February 23, 2005 @ 12:09 am