Domain Names and Babies

You may have spent months picking out the perfect name for your baby -- but did you reserve the domain name? That's the key question behind a recent post at Yahoo's Tech site. Seems that parents these days are holding off on making the choice about a name until they can ascertain that some reasonable version of it is still available on the world wide web.

Another common practice is checking the name your considering for possible confusion with someone of ill-repute. I'm lucky because it seems that most of the Stephanie Vance's in the world are doing good things. I feel sorry for my friend Paula Jones -- just Google the name and you'll see what I mean (for those who don't remember, she was one of the first women to publicly accuse President Clinton of sxual harassment while he was Governor of Arkansas. My friend Paula Jones, on the other hand, hasn't, to my knowledge, ever met Bill Clinton or been to Arkansas.

So, before you decide on that "perfect" name, do a quick Google search. Or you may find you've named your child after a famous porn star -- and then what are you going to do about the domain name?