I’ve recently registered the domain (which used to belong to my dad, but which had lapsed):
For the time being, I’m just using it to redirect to my main domain:
…though I might have other plans for it in the future. Looking around the web, there are a surprising number of Stainthorp (and Stainthorpe) themed web domains, including (disclaimer: none of these have anything to do with me… though some of them are—or may be—relatives…):
I’m always having to correct misspellings of my surname: ‘Stainthorpe‘, with an “e” on the end, is what most people expect and write. The longer spelling seems to be about twice as common, at least on the web: Google returns ~134,000 results for Stainthorpe -Stainthorp, as opposed to ~63,700 results for Stainthorp -Stainthorpe. (Both spellings originate with the village of Staindrop, County Durham, in case you’re interested.)
(Actually, I don’t even bother to correct people a lot of the time. But it does annoy me when even my daughter’s primary school can’t get it right.)
And as one of my colleagues spotted, even Google has it in for my family name:
