{"id":2809,"date":"2007-08-23T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:26:51","slug":"ourkidsnameblundellcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ourkidsnameblundellcom\/","title":{"rendered":"(ourkidsname)blundell.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070822\/ap_on_hi_te\/business_of_life\">Yahoo News<\/span> reports that a growing number of parents are already buying domains for their kids to protect their online identity in the future.<br \/>\nSounds like something I&#8217;d want to do and then get laughed at for ;-).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,&#8221; Pankow said. It was, and Pankow quickly grabbed Bennett&#8217;s online identity.<br \/>\nA 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.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not known exactly how many, but the practice is no longer limited to parents in Web design or information technology.<br \/>\nThey worry that the name of choice might not be available by the time their babies become teens or adults, just as someone claimed the &#8220;.com&#8221; for Britney Spears&#8217; 11-month-old son before she could.<br \/>\nThe trend hints at the potential importance of domain names in establishing one&#8217;s future digital identity.<br \/>\nThink of how much a typical teen&#8217;s online life now revolves around Facebook or News Corp.&#8217;s MySpace. Imagine if one day the domain could take you directly to those social-networking profiles, blogs, photo albums and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/146924750\/-292148.php\">Lifehacker<\/a> for the heads-up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo News reports that a growing number of parents are already buying domains for their kids to protect their online identity in the future. Sounds like something I&#8217;d want to do and then get laughed at for ;-). &#8220;One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be available,&#8221; Pankow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ourkidsnameblundellcom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(ourkidsname)blundell.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}