diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 020ebb1..7f3eae9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -759,6 +759,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "http-body-util",
  "hyper 1.0.0-rc.3",
+ "lazy_static",
  "nom",
  "prometheus",
  "quick-xml",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ec768ea..8cac874 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = "0.3.16"
 futures-util = "0.3.25"
 prometheus = { version = "0.13.3", default-features = false }
 regex = "1.7.1"
+lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 nom = "7.1.3"
 tokio-rustls = "0.24.1"
 rustls-pemfile = "1.0.2"
diff --git a/src/protos/xmpp/bind.rs b/src/protos/xmpp/bind.rs
index e89e548..35d0dfc 100644
--- a/src/protos/xmpp/bind.rs
+++ b/src/protos/xmpp/bind.rs
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ impl Display for Jid {
 
 impl Jid {
     pub fn from_string(i: &str) -> Result<Jid> {
-        // TODO make regex static
         use regex::Regex;
-        let re = Regex::new(r"^(([a-zA-Z]+)@)?([a-zA-Z.]+)(/([a-zA-Z\-]+))?$").unwrap();
-        let m = re
+        use lazy_static::lazy_static;
+        lazy_static! {
+            static ref RE: Regex = Regex::new(r"^(([a-zA-Z]+)@)?([a-zA-Z.]+)(/([a-zA-Z\-]+))?$").unwrap();
+        }
+        let m = RE
             .captures(i)
             .ok_or(ffail!("Incorrectly format jid: {i}"))?;