[Brug-talk] Setup BRUG website

[Jan De Poorter]

Google isn't a good way to pick a name Peter, if I search for 
RubyBelgium I'll obviously know about the group, and I might as well 
surf to RubyBelgium.be. The fact is we want people googling for "Ruby in 
Belgium", "Rails Belgium", "Ruby on Rails belgium", ... and in that case 
domain names don't really matter. I still think rubyist is an excellent 
name by the way :-) or ruby-lang.be or something.

PS: Trademarks don't matter in domain name disputes.

Rgrds,
Jan

Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Jan De Poorter <brug at defv.be> wrote:
>   
>> I don't really like rubybelgium.be, too long, and with the .be ccTLD you
>> are saying the same thing twice. I'm in favor of rubyist.be, or
>> something like ruby-be.org.
>>     
>
> FWIW, I beg to differ. The -ist thing doesn't sound with me ...
> I prefer a longer name that is easier to remember and that
> consists of simple _plain_ (full, not abbreviated) words, that
> are easy to pronouce and understand.
>
> If we want to do Ruby in Belgium, let's just call it that way.
> Why make it more difficult ?
>
> Hey, but in the end it is irrelevant what the name is, as long
> as it is unique (that means not already taken in google, DNS
> and in TradeMark land).
>
> * Google(rubyist) : 640,000 hits
> * Google (RubyBelgium) : 0 hits
>
> That's clear to me ...
>
> Peter
>