[Macha]

.com/.net/.org - your name is probably gone

New gTLDs - The registry can pretty much arbitrarily set prices in the future

ccTLDs - Politics might make you have to change domain (e.g. UK owners of .eu)

Pick your poison, I tend to stick with the original TLDs and my own country's ccTLD

[MisterSandman]

How is .me? It's used a lot by students for their portfolio, I bit the bullet but wondering if I screwed up.

[kijin]

IMO .me is one of the safer ccTLDs. It's from a fairly stable country that hasn't been keen to hike up the prices or impose restrictions on who can have their domains so far; it's not often associated with spam; and it's even used by large companies like Facebook (fb.me).

When it comes to pricing, though, you never know what will happen down the road. I honestly don't know who I'd like to trust more: Verisign or the government of Montenegro?

[account42]

> When it comes to pricing, though, you never know what will happen down the road. I honestly don't know who I'd like to trust more: Verisign or the government of Montenegro?

Since .me is more targetet at / suitable for individuals rather than a hipster startup domain like .io, the prices will hopefully remain lower. Or at least that's what I like to tell myself.

[smcn]

.me is absolutely fine and, as an employer, I would not mark down an applicant for using it.