[Brug-admin] Domain name

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 10/11/07, Alain Ravet <alain.ravet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just one remark : I think the redirect should be in the other redirection :
>   rubyist.be => rubybelgium.be
> , with rubybelgium.be being the official/public address of the community.
>
> The rationale : urls are our signatures.
> Each time we will communicate with the world (read: the others) we
> will publish a url.
>
>   http://rubybelgium.be/conferences

I hope I now understand the DRY argument better (actually, just hit Chapter
14 (Active Record Basics) chapter in the Pragmatic Programmers book on
Rails; really fun to start understanding the underlying technologies :-).

rubybelgium.be indeed has a DRY problem, and ... as we are moving
toward a VZW/ASBL concept, I proposed yesterday to Peter
(Vanbroekhoven) to rather focus on the name

  rubybelgium.org

This:
* avoids the DRY problem
* adds value in the TLD by emphasizing the .org nature of the VZW/ASBL

In second order, I think the organisation could register the rubybelgium.be
and rubybelgium.com names "defensively" to avoid abuse. I believe, this
has happened in the meanwhile.

If I understand well, the idea was to start using the rubyist.be name
for internal
networking, so the ideas around rubybelgium.tld are only relevant for
a later date.

Peter