After changing ISPs a couple of times I decided that I needed an email address that didn’t change whenever I changed ISP. It wasn’t too bad letting friends and family know the new address, but it was a pain updating every website that I had a logon to. I know that I could have got myself a Hotmail or Yahoo email (gmail was invite only back then and I’d not been invited) but I figured a domain could be more useful as it would allow me to host services etc. In fact, for quite some time I hosted my own email server but decided that it was easier to have that hosted.
Anyway, the domain search began, all the domains relating to my name were either taken or really expensive so I started to think about what else I could use. I went back to the 90s, when I was a regular on various IRC channels, including one where I created a bot to look after the channel when the moderators were away. My IRC nickname was Stilgar (I’d just finished reading the Dune series of books by the late Frank Herbert) and I named the bot raglits as I couldn’t be bothered to think up some really cool sounding name for the bot and just reversed my IRC nickname.
A search showed that raglits.co.uk was available and not expensive so I bought the domain and have renewed it ever since.
