I'm a software developer and maintain a personal website I use for personal marketing, displaying my portfolio, and blogging. Recruiters often use it as a reference, and I also use it to support some consulting that I do.

I'm in the process of completely re doing the site and am considering launching it with a new domain.

I own several domains related to my name, but am unable to get firstlast.com without paying $2000. I want to determine which domain I own (or another domain I might be able to purchase inexpensively) would have the best SEO for my website.

I own the following domains:

• first-last.com
• firstlast.me
• firstlast.dev
• firstmiddleinitiallast.com
• first.to

My last name is 8 characters and very common in the US. My first name is 4 characters and fairly uncommon.

Which of these domains (or another one) would be best for SEO? How much benefit would I get over these if I did purchase firstlast.com?

Also, does adding a CNAME from the other domains I own to the primary one I use for the site have any SEO benefit?

Any other feedback around optimizing SEO for this type of website is welcome too of course.