# Own Your Online Presence with a Personal Domain and Social-Media Redirects

DevFeed: [Own Your Online Presence with a Personal Domain and Social-Media Redirects](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/own-your-online-presence-step-1-25306.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://kau.sh/blog/own-your-online-presence/>)

Author: Kaushik Gopal

Published: 2023-02-03T03:13:13Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Kaushik Gopal's Site](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kaushik-gopal-s-site.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Mastodon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mastodon.md>), [Amazon Route 53](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-route-53.md>), [DDoS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddos.md>), [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>)

Tags: [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [ddos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddos.md>), [dns](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dns.md>), [internet](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/internet.md>), [io](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/io.md>), [social-media](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/social-media.md>)

## AI overview

The article recommends buying a personal domain, configuring DNS, and creating subdomain redirects for social-media accounts. These redirects let the author preserve familiar URLs when changing platforms or handles, illustrated by a move from mastodon.social to hachyderm.io.

## Source excerpt

Owning your content and where you put it is crucial in the online world. The first step to establishing your corner on the internet is to choose a domain name.1 After obtaining a domain name, many people only set up a website. However, I recommend taking the next step of creating subdomain redirects for your social media handles. By Cloudinary, CC BY-SA 4.0 For example, when mastodon.social suffered a DDoS attack, I moved to hachyderm.io,2 but the mastodon link I hand out to folks remained unchanged. How you ask? It's mastodon.kau.sh and I control the redirect. I just switched it intenally from mastodon.social/@kaushikgopal -> hachyderm.io/@kaush.3 This is also why I am not terribly worried about changing my handles on Github, Twitter, LinkedIn, or YouTube, as I have redirects for all of these: github.kau.sh twitter.kau.sh linkedin.kau.sh youtube.kau.sh To take control of your online presence, buy your own domain, adjust your DNS settings,4 and start using your own URLs. It's a simple first step with a big impact. After many many attempts, I landed on one that I liked. I use namecheap (referral code) ↩︎ It was already on my mind to be honest and I guess this was the push I needed. ↩︎ The added benefit is that I don't have to remember or type Mastodon's unattractive URLs. ↩︎ Cloudflare makes these trivially easy. ↩︎