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Is it ethical to buy a domain name for a newborn baby? I don't know.

I can buy anything for a newborn. Also a domain or a phone number.

I can buy it too, but I wonder if there will be negative parts...

There’s the cost, but that’s minor (for the minor).

The biggest negative is your newborn might not care or want whatever domain you picked out.

So the only real option is to buy tens or hundreds of domains and keep it secret. Then reveal the domain that most closely matched them when they’re of age, whatever that may be.

then whats the point of getting the domain(s) at birth.

Some people create website for new born and post life photo them.

Think like a photo book, but it's public.

And you can do that for a lot less than $38k, just get GitHub pages and a domain.

I don’t really know, not what I do.

I have my own domain(s) and my kids could have subdomains as DNS intended ;)

You never buy a domain, it is a rental and owner can take it back anytime without any problems.

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