Hi, Patrick Aljord wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I find it a little disheartening that what was initially announced as a >> competition to choose a new name has now been announced as a unilateral >> decision... at the very least, I would have liked to see a shortlist of >> 4 or 5 candidates registered and thrown out to the community for >> voting/comments. > > As Vadim explained, this is technically not possible. I don't know if > you've ever tried to buy a domain name, but people just try to > speculate and buy everything in the dictionary or not. Doing a public > contest would be impossible cause some people would simply buy the > winner and try to sell it to the community later.
I have about a dozen domain names mostly lying idle. Some will be used in the future. You can buy a domain name for a year for under $10. Let's say that after doing the first level of filtering, you whittle things down to 5 names whose domain names in .com and .org are available - register 2*5 domain names for $100, and publish the short list. If all else fails, sell the other 8 :) It's a little self-important to imagine domain name hoarders following our little mailing list by the way :) There are also projects who use names derived from the project name - think of sane-project.org, spreadfirefox.com & getfirefox.com (not sure why MoFo didn't buy the .orgs associated with those, though...), mono-project.com, etc. While having the right domain name is important, it's not the end of the world to have a related domain name (like say pidgin.im) as long as it's distinctive & memorable. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wengophone-devel mailing list Wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com http://dev.openwengo.com/mailman/listinfo/wengophone-devel
