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You can hold it as yourself for as long as you need. No harm to having domains except a few dollars of annual cost.

It’s easy for another person to register it at any time, so grab it first.

The scenario of registering a company only to find that someone else bought the domain and you now need to pay them a chunk of money to get started is not where you want to be.

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Apparently cybersquatter bots can monitor brand new company registrations and scalp domain names for resale to the same company.

yep exactly my point. Grab the domain first, and then get the relevant socials 'usernames' (Less relevant these days with people using so many diff socials services).

My usual steps are:

1. Register domain

2. Setup email, including some account for social media

3. Register accounts with main social media services using the social media email address.

Resolve the corporate entity after this first step.

In a parallel universe, legal entity formation uses distributed transactions across multiple digital systems, to eliminate race conditions in identifier assignments.