I want my own personal website, like alot of people do.... so I check the whois database, but JamieWard.com had already been taken, as was .net, and .co.uk

More then likely, any domain name you want, has already been taken. Over 20 million .com domain names have been registered!

Q: So, with all the best domain names taken up, what are you supposed to do?
A: Wait untill May, 2009.

Why? Because come April / May 2009, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have recently approved this proposal allowing you to buy domain suffixes.

When I say allowing 'You', you have to own a company to be able to buy one. Who knows though, if it proves to be popular and successful, it may become open to the average person to buy one.

Hmm, I fancie the .Jam suffix - Iam.Jam

... images.google.google? Hmm.. may get a bit confusing.

Oh, one last thing I should mention.. the average price for a top level domain, (the suffix) is anywhere between $50,000 - $100,00 (USD). .google, .microsoft ofcourse are going to be a high amount more.

Jam

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You can have jamieward.co.nz Also available is jamieward.org, jamieward.info and jamieward.biz

When I buy a domain I usually try to get as many of the .ext as possible - I recently had an issue with a Chinese company saying they had copyright on one of my domain names. I was able to prove that I had registered my domains with that name long before they even existed. There is quite a trade in domain names and with so many of them taken now people are paying a lot to get the ones they want. Not sure if the new exts will help or not.

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