: Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name? I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the

@Looi9037786

It would be a better choice to make difference from all CommonName, so the question is: what is significally different in your message.

Or use some personnal interest: Dr-CommonName, MyTown-CommonName (if you aim to live to your dead int it :)), CommonName-nn (your year day), or with pass-time, activity...

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@Sent6035632

Putting aside the SEO issue (which has been well-covered by bybe), some country-specific top-level domains require that the registered domain be for a native of, or resident in, the given country. On a parallel for businesses or organizations, such domains must be for orgs located in the given country or be targeting the given country.

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@Nimeshi995

Generally considered bad for SEO due to Geotargeting, Google search about ccTLD since .in is not a generic domain, additionally you should find this information useful:

A warning to ccTLDS:


Domain hacks is a popular reason for choosing ccTLDs, combining the
domain name with certain ccTLDs to spell out the full name of the
website, i.e. goo.gl, fold.it, youtu.be. The obvious choices are .AL,
.AS, .CO, .IN, .IS, .IT, .ME, .US, but remember; Google only considers
three of these as generic, .ME, .CO, and .AS. Generic TLDs have the
Geo Targeting feature enabled in Google Webmaster so a site is able to
target a specific country, i.e. a .DE website cannot target France.


This isn't to say you can't but for easier SEO its best to avoid.

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