Parents are snapping up the domain names of their kids. If only celebrities were so smart.
A story in The New York Times discusses how parents are starting to register their childrens’ domain names while they’re still infants. For example, a baby is born as “Samuel Wilkerson”, so parents register the domain samuelwilkerson.com.
This is great foresight. It’s especially important if the kid turns into a celebrity. Most of the youngsters on American Idle never registered their domains and saw them snapped up by speculators. And politicians? Don’t get me started. They couldn’t register a domain name if their life depended on it. Every day you see a case about a UDRP decision about a celebrity or politician’s name (or worse, read about what happened in Philadelphia). A special note to politicians: if someone uses your name as a domain to attack you, it’s protected under free speech.
Personally, I think everyone should register their own name, even if they don’t have immediate plans to use it. You never know when someone will snap it up to attach your character.
Or you might win American Idle.
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