Time for another Evil Blog Promotion Idea. This one comes from my friend Gary Lee. Gary was inspired by the Tech List and came up with a “My Name Is My Domain” list. To be included in the list, your name and your domain name must be the same. Having your name as the domain is one of the requirement for Dot Com Mogul status.
Like the Tech List, you reproduce the original list and then add up to three other blogs with domain names that are the same as the owners. Then let those added blogs know and tell them to do the same thing. Eventually, the list will spread all over the Internet and drive Technorati crazy. let’s see how many people we can get banned!
***Start Copying Here***
1) Write a short introduction paragraph about what how you found the list and include a link to the blog that referred you to the list.
2) COPY the ENTIRE List below and add it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.
3) Take “My Adds” and move them into the “My Originals” list.
4) Add 3 Brand New Narcissistic Bloggers that you know of
My Adds:
Bob Buskirk
Jon Waraas
David Lithman
The Originals:
Gary Lee
Ed Lau
John Chow dot Com
Nate Whitehill
Stephen Fung
Michael Kwan
Jeff Kee
Stuart Hannig
Hannes Johnson
Nomar
Nathan Drach
Saman Sadeghi
***Stop Copying Here***
The original list had Kumiko Suzuki in it but I removed her. While Kumiko has her name in the URL, the domain belongs to Blogger. Sorry Kumiko. Get KumikoSuzuki.com and then you can join the fun. 
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Man, we’re so getting banned from Technorati…
Your blog doesn’t qualify! You’re an EdEdition.com, not an EdLau.com or an EdwinLau.com
I thought Ed’s last name was “[ED]ition”?
haha
one can only hope to get enough backlinks to get banned from technorati
then we can just be evil and pretend like we dont know what happened and technorati will give us our rankings back
right john?
lol
I doubt they’ll be that ignorant
, let’s hope they will give tons of more backlinks, I want to enter the top 20k :p
i just wanted to see what other narcissistic bloggers there were in the blosophere . . really!
What you realy want is your surname and sub domain it for your whole family, like johh.chow.com then your mail address would be john@chow.com, far cooler.
Ha, that’d be pretty neat. Too bad Kwan.com is already taken
I would love to buy chow.com but it’s own by CNet and they refuse to sell.
I could have got my name (uk domain) a few years back and never bothered, I really regret it now.
too bad wong.com is taken too. The domain hoggers sure know the worthiness of surnames, and they just won’t give them up!
again with the ego blogs. dang it, shoulda had mine up sooner.
Pretty soon as this spreads around the web there are going to be quite a few duplicates.
People have been registering their names and hosting sites under them for around 15 years, its an old idea ….
It is nothing new really. Just that the combination of your first name and last have to be pretty unique to grab yours.
Oh I’m going to have to add my name to that list huh?
Uh oh, it seems I’ve been banned by Technorati. My blog doesn’t show up in the search results, but the Technorati page still exists.
I see you on technorati . . it seems your btr is claimed, but www isn’t . .
Already?! wow lol.
Yup, the WWW was launched in 1990, you didnt miss much it was rubbish for the first few years… didnt stop people registering domains, wish I had my surname now…
Don’t forget about me!
http://www.jonlee.ca
Do .ca’s count?
Why not ?
Imagine what my url would look like. My name is Rehuel Lobato de Mesquita -> rehuellobatodemesquita.com. Any
benefits to having your name as domain name?
(Clicked before I was done)
It is akin to holding a piece of virtual property in your hands. You may not know it, but there may be others who have the same name as you do. So.. Why not grab it fast?
yes . . i totally agree . . the person who has my name as their domain is currently a evangelist in the hispanic community . . .
And the person who has my real name in life is a Senior Manager (Product Marketing) over at Yahoo! Now, think of that..
Fast, fast would have been many years ago, now is too late, for surnames at least, unless you have a really wierd name, or stick numbers on the end.
I registered the surname of a friend a couple of years ago and gave it to him. He never used it and its now up for grabs again, gutted I have a more common surname, I would love to have my surname for my mail address.
I guess I qualify to be on that list!!
I’d qualify for that list too. My links will be different, though
They’ll be a bit more cryptic.
Now I qualify too
just need to install a blog at rehuellobatodemesquita.com
HAHA nice one. I wanted to get mitchellharper.com, mitchharper.com or even mytch.com – all of which are taken until at least 2010. Damn those domain hoarders!!!
Look at my nickname in my blog and you could do nice things if the pronunciation only could do.
Well, it is irritating if they aren’t making use of the name at all isn’t it? If they are hoarding, is it the name of someone famous?
A lot of “name” domains are used for E-mail only, they are using them, just not hosting sites with them.
Hey John, thank you for the mention, but you spalled my name and site wrong.
my name is StuartHannig not StuartHanning, If you could fix that I would really appreciate it!
I just copied and pasted the list from Mr. Gary Lee, so blame him.
Hi Stuart . . . sorry about that . . michael kwan got me on that too . . i’m going to change you on my list right now too
I qualify for that list, but I don’t know 3 more people with their own domains. So I’ll pass, unless someone wants to use me, and force me to go hunting!
You don’t have to list three. Just list up to three. You can just list yourself.
My domain is the same as my online identity, does that count for anything? Not even half a mention?
haha
Actually, the original Gary Lee list was ‘My Name Is *IN* My Domain’ – so I do qualify under his list. But if you want to change the list, that’s cool. A free link from JC is worth more to me!
Kumiko
xo
Great Great , I will post this one to
Haha! This is hilarious! It seems some people picked up the list before JC got to it and now their commentators are debating on whether I should be included or not! Haha!!! You’ve done an evil thing John!!! But i do love a little controversy surrounding me!
Kumiko
Hey John… I started a similar thing a few days ago now called
‘The AGLOCO List’ – on my blog a few posts down by now..
but you have to have less than 50 directreferrals to take part so Sorry!
Matt
That’s a pretty clever idea.
Was wondering where all the backlinks and traffic came from the last few days. Thanks for the support.
Are hyphens allowed? I own pat-doyle.com (patdoyle.com was taken). I have owned it for a while already. (There is nothing there right now, but I could post the list, if I am allowed in this group.)
That’s gotta count.
hehe…you crazy bastards. Where’s all the links to my site since you he was “inspired” by the Tech List?
Keep it real people
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Credit due here men…
too bad i don’t qualify.
Personal Development
…what about a well established nickname? (Mine even shows up on my credit reports.)
so where is this now? any spottings so far?
Did this whole – my name is my domain thing ever take off? Seems kind of dead.
Really depends on how many pick it up from your site. I know it has brought me to your site…
Hey John,
I have added you to my My Name is My Domain List please add me to yours.
Thanks,
Calvin