I’ve heard of people picking up a decent @gmail.com email address for their newborn child.
The spirit, I suppose, is that it’s already hard to get good names on the internet, and it will only get worse.
So if you named your kid Timberford Jones, maybe you should make the rounds at all the sites. Get TimberfordJones at Facebook and YouTube and TikTok and every other place you can, so they’ll have a premium name when they are old enough to care. And if those services are irrelevant by then, who cares, it didn’t cost you anything anyway.
Eh. I’m ambivalent. I think the chances are pretty low that they will ever be useful and still lower that the kid is ever going to care. But other than the annoyingness of land grabs in general it doesn’t hurt anything too bad and you’re just trying to do right by your own.
Me, I’d get a domain name before anything else.
If you get the email address, another cute idea is to write them emails every once in a while, then when you give them the email address, the inbox will be filled with letters from you over the years.
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