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).<\/p>\n
Made me think. Could do that with Kitten. She has .com and .org and .info and .name versions of her name available.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, we have a family domain that she could use.<\/p>\n
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!”<\/p>\n
Personal domains? Family domains?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Is it about sense?<\/p>\n
And who knows what the Net landscape will be in 10-plus years? Will personal domains be pass\u00e9? Will they be legal? Will she even care? (“Daddy, I’d much rather have a node in podspace! That web stuff is so <\/em>aughty!”)<\/p>\n Musing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27724,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/whats-in-a-domain-asked-shakespeare.html","url_meta":{"origin":9034,"position":0},"title":"What's in a domain, asked Shakespeare","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-12 9:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at the history of some highly sought after (or supposedly highly sought after) country-based Top Level Domains ... such as \".tv\" for Tuvalu. 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