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I read a column about registering your baby’s email and social media handles to ensure their names are not taken by the time they grow up (especially if you have a common last name). Although many people will find this idea ridiculous, I have empathy for parents thinking about their family’s online identity – see my last post – but I am also a big advocate for being in control of your digital footprint and not relying on free services. Like most of the internet users, I have used Gmail, Hotmail (now Outlook) or Yahoo for personal accounts as long as I can remember; however, becoming more privacy concerned I finally set-out to find alternatives for my family’s email.

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Back in the late 2000’s I briefly experimented with buying & selling domain names after I read the story about Nissan.com and realized the value of a good domain name. I was way too late to the game with all the good .com domains already taken and only made a very small profit. Much to my annoyance I found out that the domain my lastname.com is already registered since 1999. I think it would be cool to have a firstname@lastname.com email address for each member of my family, but 9-year old me was not internet savvy enough to register the domain in time.

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