Somewhere in Africa, there is a child without a domain name July 31, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Life, the universe, and everything , trackbackA company I work for is in the process of changing its name. There was a fair amount of debate over what to change it to, but everyone was in agreement that we had to pick a name whose domain was still available. So metamorphosis.com and becooler.com are out, but say, IHeartSteak.com is all good.
Which made me think - it’s pretty fortunate for me that nielshoven.com was still available as recently as a few months ago. I’m not the only Niels Hoven in the world. There’s this guy, for example. (I talked to him a while ago. It turns out he’s younger than me - his dad made the page as a joke when he was six.) There was actually a time when Niels Hoven #2 was competing with me for the top Google spot. I think that door’s just about closed now. Ha!
And we’re not the only Niels Hovens either. Someone else snapped up nielshoven at hotmail, the bastard. I was so bummed when I discovered that. I asked Niels Hoven #2 about it, and it wasn’t him, so there are at least three Niels Hovens in the world.
Anyway, my point is just that it won’t be too much longer before people start checking domain name registrations before naming their kids. In fact, you might want to start now. Get ralphsmith.com or louiejones.com before you get stuck naming your poor kid R4lph or L0u13. Your poor, poor kids.
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Luckily I’m the only Trevin Chow on the freakin planet. Unfortunately, not the only Trevin though so trevin.com is taken. Crap.
I know a Niels Hoven back home in Kazakhstan. So that makes 4 in the world. You should all gather together and form a classical musical quartet. You could call yourselves the BeetHOVEN’s. That’s my two cents. - Mustafa