Scored myself a URL!

[Chicky]

Check it out, after a fair bit of cross Atlantic communications i'm now the proud owner of the url.

www.myspace.com/myspacedesigns

Fair enough its a myspace url, but all the /whatever on myspace are unique to each persons profiles, you think of the amount of people who use myspace and the amount of designs that are on there i think i'm quite lucky to get this url.

Check it out, tell me what you think. I'm thinking the url could be worth a fair bit of cash to someone with the right pocket, but i'm going to be using it for my designs at the moment.

[BOYD1981]

i'm not sure but i'd think that myspace probably own the urls that people use so you most likely wouldn't actually be able to sell it to anyone, atleast not legally.

[Chicky]

Im sure your right but people are selling accounts on ebay so it seems it can be done.

[Da_Elf]

why would you buy an account when you can get one for free?

[Chicky]

Accounts with unique names, mass numbers of friends. Myspace is an extremely popular community and for a company of a band being able to send out one bulletin and thousands of people seeing it can be worth a great deal for their career.

i duno, this wasn't what i started the thread to discuss.

[Da_Elf]

what is there to comment on? did you do the graphic of that naked woman and the baby head on that body?
seems everone found the purchase of a mywebspace account strange when myspace accounts can be signed up for for free. if your going to purchase a web account why not have www.spacedesigns.com which is even more of a unique name and will give you way more than myspace can offer you.

[ManicMatt]

Myspace makes me look shit.

There are musicians three times worse than me and have three times as many friends because they go around adding every profile in existence. Does this mean the band has many fans? How many of these adds are other bands. Goodness knows if I'd accepted every band request thrown my way I'd have 32895438954 "friends" by now. (More or less)

One way of knowing better I guess, is to see how many plays they've had in comparison to how many friends they have. 4000 total plays and 3000 friends? Not a good sign..

Uh okay my intentions were originally to comment on Chicky doing something here with the page... y'know, give support. But I have no idea what to say really...

[Chicky]

what is there to comment on? did you do the graphic of that naked woman and the baby head on that body?
seems everone found the purchase of a mywebspace account strange when myspace accounts can be signed up for for free. if your going to purchase a web account why not have www.spacedesigns.com which is even more of a unique name and will give you way more than myspace can offer you.

That spacedesigns domain is parked, so i would have to pay out a fair deal of money for it.

the /myspacedesigns i got for free, so no money was involved. I wouldn't pay for a myspace url.

I asked for peoples opinions on the page, not on what i should have done instead.

Lets try another subject, do you think i stand a chance of making any business? I was put up to making the page by Lee from Quarterblind who seems to think i'm good at the whole design thing and thinks i could make some cash if i worked at it.

It's far easier to promote a myspace page across to a lot of people than it is a standard domain. Think about the amount of people who see each one of your comments, bulletins or picture comments on myspace. You add someone, you then go on their friends list, people see their friends list, see your page etc etc

And yes i did all the graphics Da_Elf, the main graphic is a photo mash (so not a lot of skill involved there) but there are more examples of my work under 'view pictures'.

[noxis]

I have found that Myspace has been great for me networking with other musicians, and I found out a lot about some interesting independant bands.  But honestly, I couldn't be bothered just adding random after random because its the "in" thing to do. 

If anyone does want to check it out you can at www.myspace.com/deanthomson

[voh]

It's far easier to promote a myspace page across to a lot of people than it is a standard domain.

Easier to promote? Sure, it is, amongst a limited demographic.

Also, myspace screams "amateur" left and right. There's no problem with having a myspace profile to get some additional exposition, but I would urge you to get a domain as well, and have a regular website, which normal (read: non-myspace junkies who are generalll quite young and not in the design-paying mindset) people can visit and get information about your design style and related services from.

[Stupot]

If people are paying for MySpace accounts on eBay have you thought about selling that account and using the money to buy a proper domain name...
I recently bought ToxicSock.co.uk and I'm made up with it even though its pretty bare at the moment.

[Da_Elf]

personally if i was myspace going to alot of trouble to create these FREE spaces and someone is registering a bunch of cool names then turning around and selling them on ebay i would discontinue his account