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Baby name based on domain name availability — Picking a

Baby name based on domain name availability — Picking a

Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby.

A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years regarding parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies.

I have one matching my daughter’s name, and even registered them up for my nieces and nephews ought to they ever want to use them.

A fresh site aims to help parents name their baby by telling them what domain names are available.

Call it crazy, but it’s kind of fun.

Just enter the future baby’s last name and sex and AwesomeBabyName.com comes back with a list of available FirstnameLastname domain names:

available-names

It searches only for .com domain names. Will that still matter when junior grows up and goes to college? Maybe he’ll prefer JohnSmith.rocks. Or even JohnSmith.wtf.

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