The Good Tech Companies - How To Get a First Name Domain for Less Than $101

Episode Date: November 28, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. How to get a first name domain for less than $101 by CV Domains team. Why? CV Domain might be the last real chance to own your name on the internet. If you have ever tried to buy your first name as a domain, you already know the punchline. Almost everything is taken. Michael.com, sarah.io. David.dev.j.j.j.j. Gone. Sold years ago. If you want one today.
Starting point is 00:00:30 you are either bidding a T-A-N auction or wiring four to six figures to a domain investor. It is not surprising. First names are not unique. There are thousands of people who share yours, and the earliest buyers locked up the inventory long before you had a chance. There is now one exception. A new global domain extension, CV, is offering first-name domains at a price that would have been unthinkable anywhere else. The extension calls itself the internet's home for professional identity, and it is giving people the chance to claim first-name.cv for $100, which is a 50% discounted price. For most people, this is the first time in a decade that a first-name domain has been available without a multi-thousand-dollar auction attached to it. Why does this
Starting point is 00:01:13 window exist? CV launched globally last year. Its earliest breakout moment came from ITS adoption by reed.cd.c, the designer and developer platform later acquired by perplexity. That exposure pushed CV into the global tech audience. But because the extension is still young, first names have not yet been mass-registered. In other words, the land grab has not happened yet. You are early. How to secure your first name, the easiest way is throughola.cv, the official registry storefront. You can search for your name, buy it instantly, and get full DNS management in the dashboard. For most people, the premium first name price comes out to $100 today. Once the discount ends, this will likely return to the standard premium DA. Steps. One, visit https
Starting point is 00:02:03 colon slash slashola.cv underscore underscore underscore underscore. Two, search your first name. Three, if it is available, lock it in at the discounted price. Four, set up DNS or connected to any profile or site you want. That is it. Want a profile in 60 seconds instead of building a site? If you want your first name.cv to become a fully generated professional profile without design work or writing, you can skip straight to hello.cv. It creates an AI-crafted, Notion-style webpage that is optimized for Chad GPT, perplexity, Gemini, and other answer engines. You get a clean professional profile, structured data built for AI indexing, a page that shows up fast for, who is less than your name greater than, queries, zero configuration, and free. CVDNS management IF you want the
Starting point is 00:02:54 AI experience, go to hello.cv. If you want the raw domain and none of the AI powered stuff, visit Ola. CV other places you can buy. CV. If you prefer your usual registrar, you can get regular CV domains everywhere. Prices range from about $2 during seasonal promos to $10 on a normal day. You will find CV on name cheap, dinadot, name silo, pork bun, name, spaceship, and more than 20 others the last moment before prices skyrocket. Most people who own short domains bought them 10 to 20 years ago. The same pattern will happen with CV once awareness spreads. First names are always the first to disappear, and once they are gone, they do not return unless someone or a sells at a premium. If you ever wanted your name as a domain without paying auction
Starting point is 00:03:44 prices, this might be your only chance left on the modern internet. Check your name. If it is available, take it. It will not stay available for long. Thank you for long. Thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.

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