Have you ever thought of owning your own "personal domain name?" You want a dot com domain name, is that right? Or

Something like myname.mobi, myname.net, myname.org or...

Frankly speaking,

Although most people have a tendency to imagine ideas...

Never, not even once, did I ever think of registering my own name.

What for anyway? But that was then... before I stumbled upon this particular article on the internet about personal domain name. As usual, as is always the case,

I was surfing the internet, browsing here and there... really very busy doing nothing but passing time. Come to think of it; my girlfriend really hates my laptop to hell.

Something in the back of my mind tells me, one of this fine days I may come back home only to find the poor thing tossed in the trash. But as I was saying, precisely I was reading this article about personal domain name and I must say I was astonished.

The article went on to dwell on how the world is becoming more technically inclined each day and so on and so forth... But here is something else that caught my attention, that - of late, more and more hiring managers tend to perform an online profile search about a given candidate before making their final pick. Come to think of it, just imagine all those comments you leave on Facebook, Myspace and blogs all over the internet. Does this call the need of registering your name as your personal domain name?

And that, ladies and gentlemen brings us to:

The Benefit of Registering Personal Domain Name

There are various reasons why you should register your personal domain name.

The seven most important reasons are:

1. To own your name and gain total control
2. To protect and safeguard your name
3. For personal branding and identity
4. Market affiliate products and services
5. Put up a personal portfolio and resume
6. Create a website for your own articles, essays, or stories
7. Create an articles directory to earn Google AdSense revenues

Why Owning Your Personal Domain Name is a Smart Idea

If you're trying to find work or attract clients rather than just sell products, you can simply post your personal portfolio at your personal domain name URL.

You can place your personal domain name on all of your business cards, collateral materials and forum post signatures to drive more traffic to it. You can also set it up for an opt-in e-letter system to gain interested readers and collaborators.

If you're researching into what you find to be a very important field or possible innovation or invention or maybe you're a hungry short story writer or novelist looking to build an audience of readers so that publishers will take notice of you, then using your personal domain name will boost you. Just post your research or creative writing works at your personal domain name for the world to see and you'll be amazed by the results you get. You can set it up so that you can charge fees for access to the files. You can also set it up for an opt-in e-letter system to gain interested readers and collaborators.

Affiliate marketing on the Internet is making a lot of people a lot of money these days. Product providers love it, because affiliate marketing costs them precious little overhead and they only need to pay affiliates on a commission basis.

They can also find competitive people to aggressively market and sell for them because with their miniscule overhead costs they can offer generous commissions and provide the affiliates with many ready-made Internet marketing materials. With your affiliate marketing ID, redirecting that traffic to your personal domain name will make you seem less like a salesman and more like a unique personage who believes in the products you're marketing.

Personal Domain Name Markets Your Products

Bear in mind that just like affiliate marketing, using a personal domain name certainly markets your products and services on the Internet.

Again, redirect your cold sales-sounding URL to your personal domain name to give your business that personal touch that makes the difference in getting sales.

You can set up your personal domain name site to be a one-stop website where people can instantly and easily go to dozens or hundreds of other websites selling products. Every time one of those websites makes a sale on a person who came through your personal domain name URL, you earn a commission.

Another useful way to use your personal domain name is that instead of creating a one-stop site for people to find products and services, you can create an articles directory for people who are more interested in finding information. But, you should set up your site with Google AdSense and put AdSense on each article that your directory links people to. People who are looking for information will see a related ad that captures their interest and they'll click it therefore earning you a commission.

You may also want to store your personal data exclusively at your personal domain name URL instead of your computer. This is a magnificent way to backup important stuff on your computer's hard drive. Also, it allows you to access the important data if you travel. Your personal domain name saves you space on your hard drive so that your computer runs smoothly and quickly.