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It is always exciting to see domain names released into the wild and being put to good use. We've noticed that there is a burgeoning community of artists, designers and makers promoting their pet projects on the web these days. There's also a growing number of attractively designed hosted services like Cargo, Tumblr and 500px that make it really easy to create and domain customize an attractive art portfolio.

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Here are some great examples of creative showcases. Reclaiming Value is a U.S. based site that sharpens our imagination by exposing the simplicity and beauty inherent within tastefully recycled objects. Anais Gato is a freelance graphic designer from Barcelona who attracts new projects from all over Europe by posting examples of previous assignments on her Cargo Collective site. Tessa Fox is a talented photo-journalist who covers the film and music scenes in both U.K. and Australia.

The resurgence of interest in design and creativity is certainly happening at grassroots level, but the Internet is at the heart of a much broader cultural and creative shift taking place that will have global implications. For example, respected and influential media such as The Economist and Wired regularly publish articles talking about the coming revolution in distributed and additive manufacturing. It's clear now that prophetic companies like Ponoko were onto something big when they got into remote 3D manufacturing and began building an online community of designers and makers.

iWantMyName makes it easy to domain customize your creative portfolio with a one-click DNS set-up on your domain. For more information or assistance with handling your domain set-up, please feel free to contact us.
z.jpgZerply is an online personal profile service that is rapidly gaining traction with creatives and young Internet users. The company has just launched domain customization, which means you can direct a chosen domain to your Zerply profile site.

Based at Mountain View venture incubator 500 Startups, Zerply is an exciting new contender making waves in the digital profile space. Why wait until you need to look for a job before you start building an online profile? At iWantMyName, we love stuff that takes away pain and drudgery. If you already have a personal profile elsewhere and want to move over to Zerply, they make this painless by offering an import process.

Zerply and LinkedIn are often mentioned in the same sentence. But where LinkedIn caters for corporate networkers and business professionals, Zerply pitches itself more as a solution for promoting one's vocation generally. It also offers attractive design templates that users can tailor to their own specifications, differentiating it from the cookie-cutter approach of LinkedIn. This makes Zerply a more interesting proposition for folks wanting to express a little more individuality.

Part of the attraction with Zerply is that, unlike many other social network sites, you can now overlay your own personal domain name across your Zerply profile site. This adds a personal touch that continues to evade other similar services such as about.me or Google Profiles. Consequently, we've made it really easy to connect your domain to Zerply by adding it to our growing list of hosted services and apps in the iWantMyName marketplace. One click and you're away laughing!

Our news digest for September 2010 covering the latest from the web applications and services recommended in our apps for domains directory:

All customers of iWantMyname can easily configure their domain names for hosted web applications and services using our simple domains for apps setup.

App Roundup is our monthly news digest covering the latest information from the web services recommended in our apps for domains directory.

We've recently released major upgrades to our dashboard which dramatically improve the setup and management of your domain names. Hopefully this will make things even easier for you!

Web application setup

There is a new overview page that lists all available apps and services. We've also added more documentation and information within the dashboard for custom domain mapping of your favourite service.

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Our web app directory now contains more than 30 services in the following categories: email, blogs, website builder, forums, ecommerce, portfolios, social networks, url shortener and wikis.

New DNS manager

This tool has been completely re-written. Let us know if you have any troubles using it. We've got big plans for DNS management which are especially interesting for developers so stay tuned!

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