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> Minutes after my daughter was born, I also registered beverly.fraser.name. ...minutes?
by eleventen 29d ago
> Minutes after my daughter was born, I also registered beverly.fraser.name.
...minutes?
- layer8 29d agoHe didn’t say how many minutes.
- mcmcmc 29d agoPresumably less than 60
- Evidlo 29d agoDon't want to get scooped by GoDaddy when they hear the good news.
- tasty_freeze 29d agoIt was more than one minute.
- xiaoyu2006 29d agojust a figure of speech
- kotaKat 29d agoTo be faiiiir, when your partner is absolutely zonked out in the minutes post-delivery, what else is there to do when you're by their side and still half-asleep? Time to start announcing your pride and joy to the world, starting with a domain zone file.
- ipython 29d agoI mean, you've already had 10 months to come up with some name ideas. It's not like it's a huge surprise when it happens. You could even register the names before they're born.
- buzzy_hacker 29d agoI registered a domain name for my son the day he was born... whois firstlast.com | grep 'Creation Date' shows his birthday, which I found amusing!
- Aachen 29d agoGDPR would like to have a word with you! :D Nah seriously though, that's awesome.
- echoangle 29d agoI thought there might have been a need to send an ID to prove that you actually have the name you're registering for so you would need to wait for the birth certificate but from wikipedia it doesn't seem like that's the case.
- alaithea 29d agoNo requirements at all. My mom had registered my firstlast.com domain some 30 years ago. While caring for my dying dad, she let all her domain registrations expire. I then had to negotiate with a domain squatter to get my domain back.
- bossyTeacher 29d agoPriorities. /s
- gpvos 29d agoI even suspect that the name of the child was dependent on the domain name being free... but then, it shouldn't be too hard to set up the request in advance and just press the button once the child is born. Maybe there was some rule that names could only be registered for living (i.e., born) persons?
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- advisedwang 29d agoPretty crazy to be focused on anything other than your immediate family in after a birth... but not exactly unprecedented when you look at social media posts!
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- cxr 29d agoConsider whether you'd be questioning this if the author had written that within minutes of his daughter being born, her photo was on Facebook. The only thing it suffers from is not being normalized and taking marginally more* effort, while being nowhere nearly as creepy. * or arguably the same amount or less; for additional context: the author is an ex-Googler
- rationalist 29d agoMaybe they wanted the Created Date for the domain to match the birth date.