Buying your first domain is a rite of passage. It's the moment you claim your piece of the internet. For me, that domain was leacb.com.
I spent weeks debating: .com or .dev? .studio or .xyz? In the end, .com won. It's universal, trustworthy, and the OG of domain extensions.
LEACB — Let's Explore About Chirag Bansal. It's a backronym I created because I wanted something unique, short, and memorable. Five letters. Clean. Easy to type.
I checked availability, and leacb.com was available. That was the sign. I bought it immediately before someone else could grab it.
Setting up DNS was my first real encounter with internet infrastructure. Nameservers, A records, CNAME records, MX records — it felt like learning a new language.
I pointed the domain to Cloudflare for DNS management, set up SSL/TLS, configured email forwarding, and then just stared at the browser showing "leacb.com" loading my site. Pure satisfaction.
"Your own domain is your own corner of the internet. It's yours. Nobody can take it away."
There's something deeply satisfying about typing a URL and seeing YOUR creation appear. Not hosted on someone else's platform. Not under someone else's subdomain. Just YOU.