domain taken - what to choose?

Using my name as the example...

Assuming these are taken:

www.matthew.com taken
www.doucette.com taken
www.matthewdoucette.com taken

What domain should I choose instead?

other TLDs:
www.matthewdoucette.net ?
www.matthewdoucette.org ?
www.matthewdoucette.biz ?
www.matthewdoucette.info ?
www.matthewdoucette.name ?

other dot-coms:
www.mdoucette.com ?
www.matthewd.com ?
www.matthew-doucette.com ?

Just wondering what the general consensus is.

Here are my thoughts:
- www.matthew-doucette.com is bad for verbal reasons. When you tell someone, "matthew doucette dot-com", the hyphen is not included. It means you have to verbally explain, "matthew hyphen doucette dot-com".
- www.matthewdoucette.net requires someone to remember the "dot-net" as opposed to the easily assumed "dot-com".
- www.mdoucette.com works verbally, it is simple, and it does not require someone to remember the "dot-com". So far, it is my choice (even though this is still just an example, remember).

Anyways, just thought I would ask as I required a domain name and the dot-com is taken.

pretty hard to get a domain these days.. the last one sounds pretty good

www.matthew-doucette.com? Visually, it looks better than even www.matthewdoucette.com. However, if someone actually visits the site, and then wants to return, they'll probably be more apt to recall the incorrect domain without the hyphen.

I like the last one also if your going to be telling people about your site.

So that's two for www.matthew-doucette.com (or did you both mean www.mdoucette.com?), and none for all the others.

Another reason I was leaning towards www.mdoucette.com was that www.matthew-doucette.com can be easily confused with www.matthewdoucette.com (someone else's site).

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What about concentrating on just the last name of the individual? Suppose these were available (they actually are, but remember this is just an example):

www.doucette.biz
www.doucette.info

Would one of those be better? They allow for domains like:

http://matthew.doucette.biz/
http://matthew.doucette.info/

I have decided on the www.mdoucette.com domain (remember that my name was used only as an example, so this domain is not the actual domain I registered.)

As an afterthought, would this have been a good choice (since it is for a Canadian)?

http://www.matthewdoucette.ca/