All the good names might not be taken

We’ll see how this goes. On a whim, and with the wife’s grudging consent, I’ve registered a new domain for my collection: jackrabb.it.

I took a page from the del.icio.us book — make a word from a top-level domain. Naturally, with the success of del.icio.us, most of the good words ending in “us” are taken (although I haven’t tried things like suspecio.us or specio.or or pecio.us).

In perusing the possibilities, though, I noticed that some domain registrars will do international domains, including .it (Italy), .io (Indian Ocean), and so on.

I took my friend Eric’s suggestion and went to OneLook.com, which lets you enter things like *it to find words that end in “it.” And there are plenty of good ones (although, sadly, both dipsh.it and bullsh.it are spoken for).

Here’s the we’ll-see part: Technically, you have to be in the EU to register domains in Italy. So when I filled out the form I used my real address, but used IT as the country instead of US. It went through. Now I just have to see if the credit card clears.

If it does, I get to be thumper@jackrabb.it for at least a year. :)