Re: [fossil-dev] Acquire the "fossil-scm.com" domain?
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Warren Youngwrote: > On Apr 4, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > > They are now down to $40 USD to purchase the domain. > > That’s cheap, as squatted-upon .coms go. :) > +1, but because nobody's mentioned it yet: fossil is not a .COM but a .EXE! ;) -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf ___ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev
Re: [fossil-dev] Acquire the "fossil-scm.com" domain?
Thus said Richard Hipp on Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:33:40 -0400: > I'm inclined to ignore their offer, as adding fossil-scm.com is > just one more DNS entry to maintain. But I am open to acquiring > fossil-scm.com (and pointing it to exactly the same webserver as > fossil-scm.org) if others think that would be a good idea. This sounds like a marketing/advertising question. :-) It seems to me that what it boils down to is a question of whether or not you have the spare change to maintain another domain. Setting up additional DNS entries is generally extremely easy (depends on the DNS software), but then you might have additional things to worry about (e.g. virtual host domains). Will the .com bring additional interest in Fossil? Will it assist people who are looking for DVCS? It isn't likely that people are going to type fossil-scm and accidently put .com on the end (how did they know to type fossil-scm in the first place?). If you do get it, it probably isn't necessary to make all current features found on fossil-scm.org work with fossil-scm.com. For example, I see no reason to make the mailing list understand it. Not sure if this response is helpful. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400058e3f690 ___ fossil-dev mailing list fossil-dev@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-dev