Registering your name as a domain name will offer one huge benefit which makes the exercise well worthwhile.
You’ll have the option of using your own personal email address.
For example if your name was John Doe and you owned the domain JohnDoe.com you could have the email address John@JohnDoe.com
This looks more professional than an ISP email address such as johndoe433@myisp.com which is what an ISP may provide you with.
But another benefit of having your own personal email address is it doesn’t matter if you change ISP’s or if your ISP goes broke because such circumstances will not effect your email address as you can quickly host it with a new ISP or web host.
Niether will you need to contact all your friends and associates informing them of your new email because you would have an email address that never changes. If you think that ISP do not go out of business perform a Google search on a search phrase such as “my ISP went broke” and read some of the horror stories such an event creates.
If you currently have an ISP email address or a free email address such as Hotmail or Yahoo you should understand that you are not self reliant as far as control of your online email communications are concerned. It would be especially risky for you to be building and online personal or business brand using such email addresses.
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