A growing number of parents are selecting their children’s name according to whether their .com domain name is available. The trend is acquiring your child’s name (or names which are under consideration), even before the baby is actually conceived:

Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won’t likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name.

Likewise newborn Bennett Pankow joined his four older siblings in getting his own Internet moniker. In fact, before naming his child, Mark Pankow checked to make sure “BennettPankow.com” hadn’t already been claimed.

“One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,” Pankow said. It was, and Pankow quickly grabbed Bennett’s online identity.

What is the purpose of snagging your child’s domain name?

We did it for novelty reasons and to make sure nobody used the domain to cyber-bully our children, as has been done to other kids in this age of the internet. Also, in the unlikely event that our boys become a household name, already having their own URL will be handy, indeed.

So, if you haven’t bought your kids name, you might strongly consider it — it’s only $9 a year through a service like Go Daddy (even cheaper if you buy multiple years) — and snag it before someone else does.

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