Chasingeden.com is a good domain. Its easy to remember, and it suits me. I also tried to buy Elliott.com (accounting software company) and Elliott.org (oddly enough a travel portal) a long time time ago, but they are already taken.

The other day I ran across the .tt suffix. It is for Trinidad and Tobago. I figured even better than elliott.com is simply: ellio.tt

Also, its not taken. Awesome!! How much can a domain cost? Chasingeden costs me like 5 bucks a year…I’m willing to pay more for my email address to be elliott@ellio.tt.

Alas, Trinidad and Tobago does not use the same low cost/customer friendly model as Godaddy.com (where I bought chasingeden). It appears the country administers it themselves: http://www.nic.tt/. Very high-tech!!!

How much is the ellio.tt domain? Well…from what I can make out, it is $1000 for the first two years, and $1000 more every five years after that. The cost includes “maintenance” at no extra cost. Maintenance? There is no maintenance; that’s why it only costs $5 a year for a domain at Godaddy.

Seriously? Hopefully the government is using the excess for education or something; although apparently not for education in IT or economics.

No wonder ellio.tt is still available.