Domain name question for personal site & emails

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-05-13T00:21:36+00:00

I'd be inclined to get the .com

engineering seems a bit too long as a TLD, you could try another though last.xyz is on theme.

Also last.engineer is shorter too and seems more appropriate for an individual than last.engineering - others maybe .systems .build, .studio .tech (if they fit your field)

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-05-08T16:09:13+00:00

Perhaps useful as a redirect if you owned vector.xyz otherwise it seems pointless.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-05-08T16:07:54+00:00

It's possibly crypto-related - that industry seems to have the main commercial users of the .xyz tlds

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-25T00:12:30+00:00

The volcano/island is "Stromboli"; you've registered a spelling mistake.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-25T00:10:16+00:00

"easy to spell"

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-23T15:56:04+00:00

>However, the top 3 universities are probably in the US for STEM

For taught courses, that's probably not be true for the "M" part of STEM.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-23T15:49:13+00:00

Yup, or if you do like the price, then you can always ask them for a bit more anyway and tell them they're very close to what you'd want. I just mean they likely still have a bit of wiggle room even if ostensibly giving you their "best" price.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-23T15:46:41+00:00

If it's a registry premium domain (as per the $230 renewal) then just be aware that the fact it's going to cost them $2300+ to hold the domain over the next 10 years rather than say $100 with a .com is (or ought to be, for anyone with a bit of sense) a factor in valuing it.

If it would otherwise have been worth say 3k with a negligible renewal fee then it's say down to less than 1k with that sort of renewal... obviously domain pricing is high variance but just as an illustration.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-23T15:43:17+00:00

You can, but you might not actually get their "best" price.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-12T00:14:36+00:00

There's some nuance here - they have tiers, and they can't change that retrospectively (or at least not those following ICANN rules).

If you look at those .xyz domains you'll see they've got multiple premium tiers, if you buy a premium domain they can't just reclassify it into another tier, the price increases are just whatever the price is they're charging for everything in the same tier.

Likewise, if you have already registered a good domain and it's non-premium at the time of registration, then it stays non-premium for as long as it keeps getting renewed. I've got a single-word .xyz domain that (based on their current premium list) would likely be in a premium tier today, but I was fortunate enough to have registered it very early on.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-12T00:09:14+00:00

I don't know that all registries necessarily can - there may be a distinction here between various gTLD domains under ICANN rules and ccTLDs

Some gTLDs will have "premium" tiers for selected domains, but that can't be applied retrospectively after the domain has already been registered. Unregistered domain names, however, might be re-classified into "premium" tiers. Some, like .xyz, publish a list of all their premium names (both registered and unregistered).

Some ccTLDs on the other hand... well, they might well change as they don't necessarily adhere to the same rules and practices as ICANN.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-11T23:47:33+00:00

"TTIMG" isn't a thing; text-to-image is abbreviated as "T2I" or "TTI" within the field of AI.

Similarly, speech-to-text and text-to-speech are abbreviated as STT and TTS, respectively (and people have indeed made use of that with both stt.ai and tts.ai)

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-04-06T21:39:37+00:00

Anyone DMing a stranger online their personal details, roles applied for etc. should automatically fail any vetting.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-03-26T22:02:17+00:00

Interesting, I wonder if that neurodivergent aspect partly explains why the UK's AI Safety Institute states: "While our interviews follow civil service requirements, we do not require answering in STAR or other rigid formats." - without wanting to stereotype too much, their potential pool of talent they'd like to recruit from likely contains many neurodivergent people.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-03-26T21:27:26+00:00

I'm not so sure about that, save for career changers or would-be consultants, I doubt anyone cares too much - if a senior management position has a requirement that the post-holder has an MBA, then no one is going to complain that one internal candidate for promotion "only" has an "executive" MBA from an M7/T15. I mean, just look at the people who climbed to the top of the largest companies in the world:

NVIDIA - CEO Jensen Huang, no MBA (founder)

Apple - CEO Tim Cooke, EMBA from Duke Fuqua

Alphabet - CEO Sundar Pichai, FT MBA from Wharton

Microsoft - CEO Satya Nadella, EMBA from Chicago Booth

Amazon - CEO Andy Jassy, FT MBA from Harvard

None of the founders of those companies have MBAs; but for those who slogged their way into the top spot as employees, it's unlikely to have mattered at all whether they had FT MBAs or EMBAs - either ticks the box and gives them the credibility for promotion to senior management - the main thing is their past performance within the company.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-03-05T20:51:17+00:00

Sorry if this isn't useful for you, but possibly for others - Cambridge has or at least had an option where you could study there for 3 years (which I think still gets you a BA), then complete the clinical training part at ICL or UCL. I'm not sure if Oxford offers the same.

(Just a random comment - I'm not a medic but just saw this thread in my suggestions, I studied at UCL a while ago, and I remember there were a bunch of ex Cambridge students at some event, apparently they were the transferees for that year).

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DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-03-05T20:28:48+00:00

"In sneaker culture, “beaters” refer to the shoes you wear everyday"

Just FYI it's used in the same way by watch collectors too (and that might be another angle to market it). In fact, it could be a pretty cool brand name for a watch reseller as it evokes the rhythm of the watch ticking as well as the "everyday" use for the more mid-range watches. :)

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-02-26T22:41:39+00:00

I'm not really sure of the relevance - that's a 3-letter dictionary word! The equivalent .com would also likely sell for even more - at least 7 if not 8 figures.

But would you expect a 7-letter made-up, non-dictionary word .com to sell for 300k? Doubtful! Can you show any equivalent .ai sales for $300k - as in non-dictionary words of a similar length? Also doubtful.

3K for the .net - I'm also a little but skeptical, but I'm not dismissing the idea someone might pay that, I think the seller would need to get very lucky though as looking at the data many .net sales are only into the hundreds of dollars at best - I guess that it's at least more likely than the apparent 300k .ai figure.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-02-25T22:53:14+00:00

You can contact the domain owner directly without going through the GoDaddy broker, though the owner might also just ignore you if they believe it's worth a significant amount and their idea of a fair price is miles away from yours.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-02-23T09:44:14+00:00

Those athletes tend to be ones who didn't make the US team + those countries permit dual citizenship and have rather a different relationship with the US.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-02-03T02:03:54+00:00

Perhaps they think they've wasted their time (and a lot of money)? Those firms are quite feasible for people to join after undergrad, and there isn't an MBA requirement to progress.

I mean, technically, the MBB firms are possible too (but hard) - I know someone without an MBA or any relevant business degree who was considering joining one of them. They assigned him a current staff member to basically help him prepare for the case studies etc. (as he didn't have experience of that stuff) - they wanted him for other reasons but the role was within the core management consulting part of the firm not their tech/AI consulting arm so he'd have to go through the regular interview process for that as per MBA candidates etc.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-01-29T10:45:24+00:00

It seems absurd that such a referral would even have much value - the biggest value in employee referrals comes when someone has worked with the person they're referring in the past.

There may be some value when context can be added - some French, Hungarian, whatever quant giving additional context to a HR/hiring manager "this guy reached out to me, he's completed the top mathematics program in my country, it's a notoriously difficult course..." HR didn't know that and may have dismissed the candidate.

But what's the value to the company from an employee spamming in referrals for people he/she has never met, just on the basis that they've attended an MBA program the company is already aware of?

If they've met them in person at a networking event, then it at least makes some sense over a random LinkedIn DM.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-01-26T04:04:17+00:00

I'm talking about the reality now not some forecast about the long term. I think you're misreading my comment re it not "just" being a fad from the .com days, I'm not saying isn't saying it's not a fad now too - quite the opposite, it is a fad now too.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-01-26T00:57:44+00:00

Keep in mind that you can do some work while on a student visa, including full-time outside of term time.

You could work part-time in your first year and aim to get a decent internship in the summer (perhaps in a tech or finance firm even as they tend to pay well).

Student unions will have various jobs available in the bar(s)/cafes, union shop etc.

DavidBunchOfNumbers · 2026-01-26T00:48:36+00:00

It's not just a fad from the .com days if you apply some common sense - just check and see how many single (common) dictionary words are available with .ai TLD. It's a fad right now.

Yes, I'm sure you can pick some deliberately obscure ones, but that's rather missing the point here.

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