New domain

% WHOIS uter
Domain:      uter
Status:      REGISTERED
Registered:  Sat Jan 13 2007

Licensee:
   Not shown, please visit www.dns.be for webbased whois.

Yes, .be whois sucks, but that's not the point of this blog post.

I noticed that the last part of my first name, 'uter', is still available in the .be DNS namespace, so I registered it. Apart from giving me the ability to have an übergeek email address, this also opens up the ability for some silly puns—like comp.uter.be and m.uter.be. The latter one is especially interesting for IRC trolls.

Why did I register it? I've been having grep.be since almost five years now, and it's getting old. The initial idea I had with it and for which I registered it, has never been implemented; and apart from being my personal domain, grep.be has now also become a domain for some random email lists and addresses, some of which not even related to me in any way. While I have no issue with those uses per se, I think it's about time that I separate myself from grep.be as a whole.

Not that grep.be is going away any time soon, though.