Danny Novo
I was looking over all the domain names I have registered over the years, and remembered that I had registered full name domains for each of my children. Someday, the logic went, they will want their own web sites, and they will be grateful that I had the foresight to grab these while I still could.
A sound idea. But what about securing their username rights for web pages, web apps, and web services. Should I grab AIM accounts for all of them? Should I go ahead and register a Flickr name (i.e., Yahoo!) for each of the boys? Gmail?
What do you think?
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I think it’s futile. My mother named me Mark, but never in a million years could she have predicted that I’d go by “marsviolet.” I have forsaken my given name. Besides, by the time it matters Apple will have swallowed Microsoft will have swallowed Yahoo! will have swallowed … well, you get the point. On the other hand, it can’t really hurt, right?
Of course, even childless I can empathise with your compulsion. I mean, I got a .Mac email address for my cat.
What Cousin Mark said. What’s in a name?