---
name: register-personal-name-domain
description: "Give your work a web address you control."
category: Personal Branding
stage: —
definitive_article: /personal-brand
status: needs-work
---

# Register personal name domain

Give your work a web address you control. This guide helps you choose and register a name people can connect to you. Start with the name you use for work and the account that will own the domain.

**The path:** Approved name → Available choice → Owner-approved purchase → Domain receipt

**Start when:** The person needs a name domain or verification of an already-owned domain before a site build.

## Inputs

- The accepted professional name, legitimate variants and the person’s preferred existing domain if any.
- An owner-controlled registrar account, purchase/renewal authority and budget.
- Any existing site, mail or DNS dependencies; the actual host plan and secure access-record location.

## Steps

1. Confirm the name and reader-facing identity before searching domains. Inspect any existing owned domain and links first; a site may already have a suitable stable home. Do not move an established site merely to match a spelling preference without a reviewed migration reason.
2. Check the preferred name domain through the actual registrar and record availability and quoted purchase/renewal prices. The house preference is a memorable personal-name .com; it is not a guarantee of higher ranking or a reason to pay an unapproved premium.
3. If needed, propose legitimate name variants such as a middle initial or full middle name. Check for confusion with a different person or brand and show the exact spelling. The owner chooses the actual domain; the recipe does not invent identity facts to fit availability.
4. With purchase authority, register in the person’s controlled account and verify the exact domain, term, receipt and owner access. Helpers use supported delegated access. Keep credentials and payment details in the approved vault, not a public task record.
5. Confirm renewal settings, current expiry date, contact verification and privacy options actually offered for that domain. Use the owner’s approved renewal policy; do not purchase extra years or claim privacy is available in every case merely to satisfy a checklist.
6. Prepare the next hosting and DNS handoff from actual provider instructions. Registration is separate from web routing, email setup and a live website. Preserve existing records and require the relevant change authority before pointing the domain or altering nameservers.
7. Save the selected spelling, registrar and DNS-provider roles, owner-access proof, expiry/renewal state and exact next action. A successful purchase is complete domain registration; resolving to the final site is a later deployment check.

## Definition of done (QA checklist)

Quality assurance (QA) means checking the actual result against its agreed requirements. Follow the [Article Guidelines](https://localservicespotlight.com/article-guidelines/).

- [ ] The exact chosen domain is registered or existing ownership verified in the correct owner account.
- [ ] Price/term authority, renewal state and secure access references are recorded without secrets.
- [ ] The site builder receives the real domain and dependencies; website launch is not inferred.
- [ ] The exact output, source revision, reviewer evidence and remaining owner action are saved.
- [ ] For any reader-facing output, the short grade-five opening states the reader’s useful outcome and supporting method or proof. The body delivers that promise; a useful authentic visual appears in the first screen. Retain exact text and quoted reviewer evidence.

## Example(s)

**Fictional teaching example. This is not a client result or proof of a completed run.**

A fictional advisor finds that her exact name domain is taken. She chooses a real middle-initial variant within her approved budget. The purchase receipt and renewal date are saved, but DNS is still on the registrar’s default page. The handoff accurately says registered and ready for site setup, not live personal website.

## Handoff and Content Factory context

[Build the personal brand site](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/?task=build-personal-brand-website#task-build-personal-brand-website) receives the verified domain and owner-controlled access; the deployment owner receives actual web/mail dependencies.

This task supports the [Content Factory: Produce, Process, Post and Promote](https://blitzmetrics.com/content-factory/). Identity, proof, access or coordination can support several stages. Use the real inputs and receiving owner above; this task does not create unrelated transcripts, clips or ads merely because the diagram has four stages.

## Start with an agent

Give the [AI worker](https://blitzmetrics.com/build-agents/) this recipe, the real inputs, desired result and actions already authorized. Ask for the saved output, sources, checks and next owner. A [skill is a written recipe](https://localservicespotlight.com/plugin/); loading one does not prove account access or perform the task. Use the [installation guide](https://localservicespotlight.com/install/) if reusable setup is needed. A ZIP is a source snapshot, not an access grant or automatic update.

Use the app’s actual supported tools and verified file/account access. Keep a missing human verification step with its real owner. Recurring work needs its own configured job, trigger, timezone and observed result; this guide creates no schedule. Before any media playback, mute the player and set its volume to zero. If silence cannot be verified first, use captions, frames, metadata or another silent check.

## Record the real execution

Open the run record when work begins. Keep one execution ID, starting recipe revision, real inputs and current state. Write the [meta article, the record of this execution](https://blitzmetrics.com/meta-article-prompt/) with actual steps, results, checks, failures and next owner. Writing is required; public release follows existing authority. Link it to this recipe and the [Task Library](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/).

Reuse the same execution ID for internal checks, revisions, retries and meta writing. A blocked run stays open with its dependency and owner, without an invented finish time. Dated public examples and distinct verified execution counts remain separate. Propose the smallest source-backed recipe improvement when the actual evidence reveals a defect.


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## Factory chain (do not treat this as isolated)

- **Phase:** —
- **Importance:** 5/5 `●●●●●` — frequency 2, revenue 3, gating 5 (unblocks a chain (access/plumbing))
- **Suggested previous station:** —
- **Suggested next station:** —
These stations are generated neighbors, not verified prerequisites or handoffs. Follow the task’s actual Inputs and Handoff sections.
- **Handoff:** Save this task’s actual output, source, date and checks where the receiving owner can read them. Follow the Inputs and Handoff sections for its next step.

## Model routing (same factory, any engine)

- **This task's lane:** `any` — Any capable chat model (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini). SOP following, drafts, checklists.
- **Single-engine path:** Use the capable AI app you already have. Check its required tools and access before starting. Pass the actual result and proof to the next task.
- **Optional multi-engine:** A tested local model may draft; a stronger model may review facts and voice. Use supported tools for approved actions. Pick models from observed quality and cost; a model name does not prove it can run this task.
- **Never** store the working state in one vendor's memory. Files in the Content Library are the bridge.

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## Definitive article & links

- [Maintained source guide](https://blitzmetrics.com/personal-brand/)
- [This task in the Task Library](https://local-service-spotlight.github.io/task-library/?task=register-personal-name-domain#task-register-personal-name-domain)
- [Article Guidelines](https://localservicespotlight.com/article-guidelines/)
- [Definitive article and task recipe standard](https://blitzmetrics.com/definitive-article-guide/)
- [How recipes and run records fit together](https://localservicespotlight.com/meta-articles/)

## Review and evidence still needed

The inherited contributor status is `needs-work`. It is preserved, not promoted by this rewrite. That label alone does not prove document readiness, account access, an actual execution or a client result.

The fictional example teaches the method and does not fill a real-run evidence gap. A named semantic reviewer must check the actual opening, full method, sources and handoff. Check the useful opening visual in the normal rendered guide at the current required desktop and mobile sizes, including 1280 × 800 and 390 × 844. Source readability checks do not prove public presentation or task execution.