I own the .com for my name, and I also purchased the .com for my kids' names. I was also able to get gmail accounts for their names (had to use a middle initial for one.) Do you think these things will have relevance when they may want to utilize these things 10-15 years from now? What other services out there would be important to add?

Angelina Jolie's birth name: Angelina Jolie Voight (Ironically, I cannot find angelinajolie.com. Searching for "Angelina Jolie official site" pulls up this: http://www.team-jolie.com/)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie

Other famous people who had a "stage name":

  John Cougar Mellencamp
  John Wayne
  Julie Numar
  

And countless others. I sometimes think about getting MyfirstnameMymiddlename.com (but then I think that's stupid, so I don't). But I figure if I buy MyfirstnameMyexhusbandslastname.com, I will suddenly remarry.

Seems to me quite likely that by the time the kids are grown, "domain names" will be nothing more than a bit of historical trivia. I wonder if anyone established AOL keywords for their kids back in the 1990s?

Yes for all three kids -- their proper names as well as nicknames. I bought the .com addresses.

Though I have to wonder, like shanecleveland, whether this will be all that important in a decade or two.

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FWIW your "name".me might be easier and cheaper. I just checked and everyone in my family is available and the price is less than .com

I'm sure Angeline Jolie's kids and my kids will have a similar amount of exposure so the comparison is totally spot on. eyeroll

Obviously, what you should really do is by the TLD for your family name. </sarcasm>

My dad did grab our family name many years ago. And it is pretty cool to have first@last.com for an email. ;)

I have that, too. It is very cool and it's fuuny to watch some people get confused when I give out my address and it's not something they recognize like gmail or yahoo.