Gbenga Sesan, the first Information Technology Youth Ambassador of Nigeria (as appointed by the Executive Cyberschuul in Lagos) owns a personal domain name - gbengasesan.com, and runs his personal website on this domain.  On this website he posts his articles and presentations, links to his various projects, and information about himself - including pictures.

Edward Popoola, the current IT Youth Ambassador, also owns his own personal domain name and website, edwardpopoola.com, which includes his profile and pictures, articles and presentations, blogs (yes, he runs two blogs - including Jangbalajugbu  ) and links to the various organizations he likes or is involved with.

Roland Ukor, the young programmer who won an Award for a cyber-cafe timer he wrote and sold to so many cafes used to host his personal website on the domain rolandukor.com but unfortunately the site is no longer available (he forgot to renew the domain).

Seun Osewa, my proud but humble self (who am I kidding? ), holds the personal domain name seunosewa.com but all you see when you visit the site is a collection of links to his various involvements including Nairaland.  It used to be a blog.

Advantages of buying a domain to hosting your personal home page/website:
[list][li]Well, it's cool  .[/li]
[li]It shows that you're serious on the Internet, since you must have spent money to get the domain.[/li]
[li]If the home page is really well-designed and you're a part-time web designer, your personal site will do a lot to convince your clients about your ability to deliver.  It just might open the floodgates of heaven and rain riches on you![/li]
[li]Well, it's cool  .[/li][/list]

Disadvantages of hosting your personal website on a unique domain:
[list][li]Some of us can't design very well and we refuse to spend money to hire web designers.  The result?  Ugly personal websites![/li]
[li]Once you're holding and using such a domain it becomes impossible to drop it, even when you're no longer spending so much time online.  You have to keep renewing the domain every year for the rest of your life.  This money should be spent on something more important (like spraying Owambe parties or taking your girlfriend to Mr. Biggs ).[/li][/list]

Do you know other Nigerians who have bought domains specifically for hosting their personal websites?  Do you think this is a wise practice? (a .com domain name costs 1500 to 5000 naira per year).  I'd like to recommend the practice, anyway, especially for those of us commited to dotcom careers.

I'll get a domain name when i am 18 ...Says my dad. I want it now, but he won't get me one. Anyways.. i think it's cool and it's way cooler if you hire a web designer.

Uhmm Seun, I think you should add some more stuffs to your domain.. Like more explainations and yada, yada's.

Seun:

taking your girlfriend to Mr. Biggs )

you take your girl friend to Mr.Biggs? With all those joints on VI? You must be very cheap oh!! Or rather, she must be very cheap oh!! Is that TayoT or Hotangel?

As an appreciation to Seun's work on nairaland. Nairahost Nigeria Web Hosting would like to offer a free 10MB space, 1GB transfer, 4 Email accounts, 5 Subdomains, 2 Ftp account, and 24/7 support featured linux web hosting account plus one .com,.net,.org, domain name of your choice for a year.

What does this mean?
You get your own website hosted for free, for a year.
You get your own domain name, that is yourname.com or whatever.com for free for a year.


How do I get one?

All you have to do is, write one paragraph, stating what you would like to do with the domain name and website, and if we like your reasons, you would receive an email with you web hosting acccount username and password, with your registered domain.

Please send also with the domain name you wished registered,

Rules.
1. there are no restrictions to what you use the package for, you can use it for your personal interest, or for your business. As long as it is legitimate, you might qualify.
2. Decision made by me and Seun is final.
3. Applications must be received by Aug 5th.
4. Send your applications to kayode.muyibi (at) gmail.com or seun.osewa (at) gmail.com

My DNS providor is extremely good, I haven't had any issue's at all with them

"kazey":

As an appreciation to Seun's work on nairaland. Nairahost would like to offer a free 10MB space, 1GB transfer, 4 Email accounts, 5 Subdomains, 2 Ftp account, and 24/7 support featured linux web hosting account plus one .com,.net,.org, domain name of your choice for a year.

All you have to do is, write one paragraph, stating what you would like to do with the domain name and website?

Rules.
1. there are no rules.
2. Decision made by me and Seun is final.

interesting. i love free stuff. though most of what you said contradicts with what's on the site. on the site, it syas 5mb of free space (too small).

is the (com,.net,.org, domain name of your choice for a year) also free?

i'm interested anyway.

yes everything is free. there is nothing contradictory. this is a special offer.

The offer looks too good to be true. This is the first time Nigerians will be offering something for free. Anyway, I will give it a trial just to make some points.

oh, we are not just any other Nigerians, we are new Gen Nigerians.

i'm definately 100% down for owning a Personal Domain Name or Website. but lack of cash...or more importantly lack of unlimited access to the inetrnet (personal internet connection at home) is holding me back. well time changes so hopefully in the future i'll get me one.

u don't need a personal internet connection dude. i don't have one. you just need to learn how to use FTP.

does nairahost have a java-based ftp client?

i know that man, but having a personal internet conection will greatly give you more time to take care of your site. that's why peeps abroud excell in managing their personal sites while we suffer here.

You mean a web-based ftp java client? Nope, but you use free secure ftp services such as net2ftp.com.

I hope to get finally get my own domain and website running this year. But how do i register for it. I don't have CC.

If any of you guys know of any reliable service with reasonable fees i will really apprci8 your linking me up.

Well we accepts bank transfers. <snip> Just PM me if you need further information.

well well well the soundest gist in town, guys im down would like an account too, any more freebees 4rm yiu guys

The competition closes on the 5th of August (two days from now, so hurry up!)

What's the use of having a personal website except if you are a celebrity? Honestly, I don't know. The good people of nairaland can enlighten me on this.

You can point online contacts to your personal website when they're asking you annoying questions like:
- What's your name?
- Where do you live?
- Where do you work?
- Are you a web designer?
- Do you have a blog?

If you interact with bloggers, it's helpful to include a link to your website/blog in comments so they can check you up a bit before e-mailing you if there's something you can help them with in exchange for $$$!

Hello, there.

We've begun a domain name reselling agency, along with web hosting ( You're able to acquire 50MB, 500MB, 5GB, and 50GB for now ) increases will come shortly. And also Dedicated Servers, PHP with all hosting -- MySQL, cPanel and so on. You also have SSH + FTP + SFTP in all domain hosting plans.

We're based in Abuja, and you can easily acquire a domain name or any of the other plans by sending an email or a PM to one of our consultants.

sapientis@yahoo.com

or

her1cus@yahoo.com

We will be moving our POP3/SMTP features to our personal websites shortly. It's taken some time for our DNS propagation to fully awaken.

I'm going to turn my own personal web site into a wiki. Watch out; it'll be hot!

UPDATE: My personal site now runs on a wiki engine. See www.seunosewa.com

Hello All,

I think this is a nice topic to contribute to

My personal domain is http://www.adeoba.name

Whats bad about that?

@seun
ur new page looks good
keep it up

Hey Seun,

I think your new site is cool,

Thanks. There have been some improvements since the last time you checked. Who else has a personal website?

well i don't have a personl domain but i have one for my company, would be coming up with a domain for my friends, and well it cooler than you having free servers, for those of us in the industry it just helps to let people know what you can seun, and yes seun. make i help you design your site, but nothing goes for nothing, i would not take a penny from you, but i have a deal you can't refuse send me a mail at michael@9jafinest.com you can check what i did at www.9jafinest.com or tmkgnigeria.com just small of my jobs ok

xeraworks is now being updated with six (6) billion names,

well what is the site about

The site is basically for my own use, researching, and publishing results of my researches, rantings, raves, and opinions. Guests are also welcome to comment.

Guys/girls seem to be drifting away from the main topic. Personal domain names and websites. I opened this topic thinking I'd read many of them, but nah!

Well, here's mine: DavidAjao.com It contains my personal website and scanty info about me, as well as my blog.

This fellow was so carried away that he did not include he's. KayodeMuyibi.com aka Kazey!

www.joftech..com

My views on issues.