[Rule-list] Need for an application database

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 4/6/2002 01:18 AM +0200, you wrote:
>http://www.puretec.de/ Sadly, they serve only to Germany (avoiding the
>hassle of getting their money from foreign countries). Oh, of course
>that's their per-month price, to be paid one year in advance, if you
>already host your webspace or server with them.

Oh, that's different. I'm paying $12/year to BulkRegister in the USA and 
have been quite happy with them, but they do have an $80 setup fee for your 
account to discourage people who only have one or two domains. No hosting 
or other services (good AFAIAC, don't want them distracted).

> > 1. I prefer the rule-project.org name as proposed.
>
>I prefer rule-linux.org - we are working on Linux here, the name should
>reflect that. Furthermore, this will give us better search engine
>ranking.

Fine by me... I'll go with the flow.

> > 3. We should have rule-project.org and proyecto-rule.org and
> > projeto-rule.org and one in each language. These can then lead to the
> > properly translated websites.
>
>This increases costs and could lead to confusion if two languages have
>the exact same writing for "project". I prefer country codes and
>subdomains:
>en.rule-linux.org, de.rule-linux.org es.rule-linux.org (the ISO language
>codes, *not* the county codes)

Your idea is better, and cheaper. Therefore *much* better. :)

>I disagree: Having more than one name will make it easier to find us! I
>don't think anyone would be confused - they see only one domain!

Again, no big deal to me. Not convinced from your point of view, but 
certainly have no objection.

>Agreed. Now we have to pick the name(s). Suggestions beyond
>rule-linux.org and rule-project.org?

Those two seem to pretty much have the majority votes.

>I think we should get the corresponding .com, too.

Great if we can do it. For my own domains, I always try to get the full 
com/net/org just because I prefer it that way. No real need, of course.

>Translations might want to use the fitting country TLD,
>for Germany that would be rule.linux.de and rule-projekt.de.

This I do not think is a good idea. Those get expensive, and now you're 
*really* talking about a boatload of domains. Better just 
"de.rule-project.org" and "de.rule-linux.org" which cost us nothing.


-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at indahaus.com


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