New internet domains for the Amarok project

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at getamarok.com
Sat Feb 2 11:41:49 CET 2008


We might also get some other country-specific domains, I could for example
register amarok.fi. I just wonder if that's what we want?

On 01/02/2008, Tyson Key <tyson.key at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark. Is amarok.de still available/useful, seeing as the project is for
> the most part based in Germany?
> I suppose that's always worth a try.
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 7:37 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > lately I've been thinking a lot about the future of our project, which
> > inevitably led me to ponder the question of a decent Internet domain
> > for our site. Currently we're using amarok.kde.org, which surely isn't
> > a bad domain. But with the project's continuing growth, I foresee a
> > situation where we would very much like to have a "better" domain.
> >
> > Please keep the following in mind: The later one acts in this regard,
> > the more expensive it is going to become. Today I've read about the
> > struggle of Opera Software with getting the opera.com domain, which
> > they tried to obtain way too late. Nowadays they have opera.com, but
> > it cost them big $$$.
> >
> > My prime target at this point is amarok.org. This domain is currently
> > used by a single (AFAIK US American) guy for the sole purpose of doing
> > his private email correspondence. I know for a fact that our Jeff
> > Mitchell has already tried to talk to this guy a while ago, and the
> > guy "friendly denied" giving up his domain.
> >
> > But I think the domain is so important to the project in the long run
> > that we should try again, and we should be prepared to offer a certain
> > amount of money for it. I'm personally thinking we could go as far as
> > $1000 for amarok.org at this point. (Of course we would first try to
> > bargain with him and not offer this sum right away.)
> >
> > I'm fairly convinced that if we wait any longer, the price could only
> > rise. I wouldn't be surprised if the domain would cost us as much as
> > $10000 two years in the future.
> >
> > Additionally, there are some other possible targets for us, some which
> > are not even registered yet:
> >
> > amarok.be (unregistered)
> > amarok.info (seems to be a parking site)
> >
> > ...and maybe more.
> >
> >
> > Please let me know what you think, and let me stress again that this
> > topic might become more important in the future than meets the eye.
> >
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