Dot-it experiment: No can do

Oh, well. I had hoped to be able to register a .it domain — specifically, jackrabb.it — by simply saying I lived in Italy. No go. Although the registrar took my money and set things up on its end, today I got an e-mail from Verisign’s Global Registration Services entitled “Conferma di richiesta di registrazione per indirizzo web.”

Essentially, it wanted me to fill out and sign a two copies of a registration agreement swearing that I lived in Italy. (It asked for a bunch of info like “fiscal code” and “VAT number” that I wouldn’t know how to forge). One copy is in English, the other in Italian, and they have to be mailed in. I suspect a US postmark would give things away.

Oh, well. As my old theater prof would say, “A great idea not fully realized.”