photo (c) 2009 Brion Hopkins

If you haven’t yet registered the URL for your-kid’s-name-dot-com yet, I implore you to do it immediately. I say this not because I had to pay a four-year-old four figures for the privilege of having an eponymous web site (seems a thoughtful uncle had purchased the domain as a gift for little Jenna). I realized the urgency of this move when my holy-rolling sister went to purchase her son’s name and discovered it had already been taken. By a gay porn star. (I swear it.)

News reports claim that expecting parents are actually making the final call on names based on URL availability (“Check Phrank-hyphen-Smith-dot-com, honey!”). Which seems a little excessive-unless of course that particular Twitter name is taken, too.

Even if you have no intention of building little Psusie her own site, go ahead and register her name. That way at least when people punch her name into the web address bar-and eventually they will-they won’t accidentally stumble upon something depraved. And whatever you do, don’t name your kid something like Bambi St. Claire or Buck Hazzard. That’s just asking for trouble.

Did you consider URL availability when you were naming your child-or wish you did?