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I wrote in the past about parents picking baby names based on domain name availability (as well as giving the baby gift of page rank).
Anyway, Ryan at Barbarian offers up an interesting alternative: “Name your child something so common that it’s nearly impossible to separate the signal from the noise. You simply vanish into a sea of digital homogeny.”