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BY KATY
HALL
I’m a few months pregnant, and my husband
and I are debating baby names. We’ve
narrowed it down to a few, and he brought
up the idea of reserving domain names
and email addresses. Is this crazy, or is it
something people do these days? — Baffled mom, Brooklyn
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It’s both! People do crazy things in large numbers, especially when it comes to their babies. Remember that
Time cover? Breast-feeding your preschooler is a thing.
If your kid is special enough to need his own website, he will have the resourcefulness needed to claim
a URL with the right name for his professional or creative needs. By the
time he’s old enough to build a useful site, URL naming conventions
and searchability parameters will surely have changed, anyway. Or you
could just name your child based on what URL is available — just make
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sure you give her a normal middle name in case
she doesn’t want to go
by Henrietta-Rose or an
equally free name.
Same with email addresses. Choosing a
handle that prevents you
from getting hired for
any job is a rite of adolescence, and transitioning
to something resembling
your name a sign of maturity. Best to let your kid
navigate these stages in
her own good time.