PARENTS CHOOSING BABY NAMES BASED ON AVAILABLE DOMAIN NAMES

A new trend is emerging: Millennial parents are picking baby names based on available domain names. According to a study from GoDaddy of 1,000 millennial parents (aged 24-38) and 1,000 Gen X parents (aged 39-53):
– As many as one in five (20 percent) millennial parents said they changed or seriously considered changing their baby’s name based on what domain names were free at the time.
– 48 percent of millennials believe it’s important for their child to have an online presence early in life.
– Millennial parents are much more proactive with getting their kids set up with their own websites. 38 percent have created or are considering creating a website for their kids. Only 20 percent of Gen X can say the same.
– The top two reasons parents said they created a website include for future job searching (48 percent) and college application purposes (47 percent).
* I suppose we should be happy that there will never be a child named Markie_Farkie, FooMonkey or GiveMeDonuts.
* This explains the trend to weird spellings of names – like the 13 different ways to spell “Cyndie”. It’s parents trying to find domains that haven’t been taken.
* So kids will now have to pay every year to renew their own names?
* Is this really a thing? I just tried to visit “john.com”, and there’s nothing there. (True! We tried it and no website loaded.)
* Not only will your kid grow up hating the name you picked for them, they’ll hate you for saddling them with an uncool domain name.