Ran across an article the other day about how someone had purchased a domain for his infant daughter, with the idea that, sooner or later, she’d want it herself, and it would be a nice gift to be able to give her (for an $8/yr pittance in the interim).
Made me think. Could do that with Kitten. She has .com and .org and .info and .name versions of her name available.
On the other hand, we have a family domain that she could use.
On the other hand, that may be akin to saying, “But, honey, why do you need your own car? Mom and I can drop you off wherever you want to go in the mini-van!”
Personal domains? Family domains?
And that assumes that she wouldn’t want something fancifully personal — “PrincessKittenyboo.com” or something. Though, one would think, a professional domain name would have some applicability.
On the other hand, mightn’t she want to merge namespace with someone else when she’s older? Until then, wouldn’t using the family domain make more sense?
Is it about sense?
And who knows what the Net landscape will be in 10-plus years? Will personal domains be passé? Will they be legal? Will she even care? (“Daddy, I’d much rather have a node in podspace! That web stuff is so aughty!”)
Musing.
I registered domain names for both my children in case they should ever want their own space. Right now, the names point to their respective photoblogs on my site, but I’m assuming they’ll eventually want their internet independence (if that’s not too aughty [great term!] by the time they show an interest).
Remember, you heard it here first!
I registered domains for my kids. $60 for 10 years on GoDaddy.
Hrm. Sounding like a consensus here.