Lately I’ve been reading an online material or two suggesting there’s now a surge in registering personal names as domain names.

Can’t say I blame people for doing such. Registering the domain name is the best and only way to prevent someone else from beating you to it.

Just a few days ago I found this article from MSN:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378395/

A small but growing number of parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can do more than peck aimlessly at a keyboard.

It’s not known exactly how many, but the practice is no longer limited to parents in Web design or information technology.

Back in my registrar days, I also personally noticed a couple of folks registering mostly domain names of persons. Real, fictional, who knows?

Nothing wrong with that, of course. Personally I also registered the namesake of my wife, although I haven’t gotten around to that of my daughter since no one online yet knows who she is.

Still, I think I’ll finally get to it since I’ve got the time and opportunity. Because if someone else has it, it’s practically difficult or even impossible to wrest it from them “just like that.”

So if you’ve got time, go ahead and register that domain name of your son, your daughter, basically your loved one. Just takes a few minutes, roughly $8-$9 a year, and you can get around to putting up anything for it anytime as long as it’s registered to you.

And as usual, make sure to keep records and put them in a safe place. Might come in handy someday.

Especially if your child’s graduating from high school, it might just make a great graduation gift.

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