They can't type, but they have websites
The New
York Times writes about parents buying up domains for their newborn, sometimes even unborn, children. Luke
Seeley's dad bought his domain, lukeseeley.com soon after an ultrasound told
them their child was a boy. I'm glad they didn't change their minds about the child's name! Mr. Seeley says, "It's like owning a piece of real estate online for him. By the time he's a teenager and he's really into the Internet, who knows what's going to be left in terms of domains?
Interesting idea, unfortunately I moved too slow for my daughter, madisonsummers.com is a porn site. And no, it does not belong to my seven-year-old. There's still hope for my son though at MaxwellSummers.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
sarah gilbert 1-15-2006 @ 3:44PM
oh! I missed my chance at another moment in the NY Times son: I've owned www.everetthanson.com since infancy and www.trumanhanson.com (a present from my blogging baby pals!) since birth. but now everett can type, so that's a plus.
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CG 1-15-2006 @ 6:30PM
We have our son's name also and have owned it since he was born. We don't use it for anything, it's more of a placeholder for when he's older (he's 8 months).
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Matthew Miller 1-15-2006 @ 9:22PM
We have a domain for our daughter -- it's nice and short and easy to tell relatives who want to look for baby pictures.
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Uncle Roger 1-15-2006 @ 9:43PM
Well, we do have http://jared.sinasohn.com/ and http://sara.sinasohn.com/, but there's only the birth announcements at those. We also have http://www.happypoopyboy.com/ -- Jared's nickname when he was younger.
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Uncle Roger 1-15-2006 @ 9:44PM
Well, we do have http://jared.sinasohn.net/ and http://sara.sinasohn.net/, but there's only the birth announcements at those. We also have http://www.happypoopyboy.com/ -- Jared's nickname when he was younger.
(Man I miss that preview button!)
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bobby 1-16-2006 @ 6:31AM
We have our son's name also and have owned it since he was born. We don't use it for anything.
LOL :)
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Serena 1-16-2006 @ 9:26PM
My son has his as well. His poor sister is stuck sharing it cause daddy is too cheap to spring for her own. On second thought...it's probably better that my daughter doesn't have her own. I'd hate to click on her personal site one day and find something I'd rather not see.
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Elizabeth 1-18-2006 @ 3:08PM
We got http://www.dorothynugent.com as a baby present from Dorothy's uncle. I thought it was one of the coolest gifts we received.
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MelissaS 1-18-2006 @ 3:12PM
I agree, that is a really really great idea for a gift.
I've always wanted to gift my sister with her name as a website and fill it up with pictures of meat and all the things she really finds distasteful in the world (she's a vegetarian).
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michael 1-23-2006 @ 12:22PM
I LIKE CERAL
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