Master of my domain

I've convinced Matt to turn the marbles/pendants thing into an indie Etsy business – at least until he's set firm prices, found a brick-and-mortar store to carry them, and so on.

His pre-Etsy work is to set up a Paypal account into which buyers will deposit large sums of cash. My job is to set up the Etsy account itself, which makes it sound like I got off easy, except I've got to work up a banner design and other little things like that. We haven't worked out the logistics of actually selling things – who's taking the pictures, doing the shipping, etc. – but he admits he kind of works in Matt Time and not Real World Time, which means I could end up doing that stuff, especially after the move.

I also bought a couple of domain names that'll eventually forward to the Etsy page. I had to set them up to point somewhere but couldn't remember my DNSes for the life of me, so I ran a whois on katesink.com. As a courtesy, the site where I ran the whois generated a list of available domains similar to katesink.

The "similar domains" included various takes on kate and sink, including katiesewer.net and katherinebasin.com. Sigh.

Look, about 15 minutes after I bought katesink.com, I realized that when you lowercase it and run it all together, Kate's Ink looks an awful lot like Kate Sink. But for the most part, with the exception of folks occasionally thinking the "ink" should be an "inc" (i.e., incorporated), people get my domain name. My name's Kate. I'm an editor who blows through red ink fast enough that I'd probably be best served with an IV drip. (It's not just at the office; I usually have a red pen on me, so a lot of stuff I write is in red. Bank tellers hate it when I sign or endorse checks in red. Eh, it won't kill 'em.)

PC Magazine published in September a list of unfortunate domain names, including IHA Vegas (www.ihavegas.com - now "under maintenance"), Mole Station Nursery (www.molestationnursery.com - taken down) and Therapist Finder (www.therapistfinder.com - still active).

Certainly, katesink.com does not live up to those lofty standards. Maybe I should switch over to katherinetub.com or katiebowl.org. But if so, I'd likely have to change my tagline from "Is this thing on?" as well. The new one would have to be as obtuse as the current one, maybe with a bit of snarkiness thrown in. "Rush to the Head!" comes to mind. Other suggestions for plumbing-related taglines?