For the last couple of weeks I've been looking for a small domain to operate a url shortner. I tried really hard to find a domain hack like the chat app "babelwith.me" or my friend's blog "samsoff.es". Unfortunately, I'm pretty late to the game so I couldn't find one that worked for me.

But, yesterday I was looking around for domains after work and I found zg.it was available and promptly placed the order. Unfortunately it didn't go through because a) you have to be an Italian citizen (but, I worked around that one) and b) cannot be 2 characters. The second one there couldn't be worked around.

After some more searching, I was able to find another "zg" domain. Everything processed overnight and its....

zg.ae

I've already set this up as a domain shortner for myself so you'll be seeing links on Twitter and Facebook from this domain. :)

(And, in case you are wondering, the country code .ae is associated with United Arab Emirates and is administered by Etisalat. So, no I didn't give money to any questionable government. :)