On 1/10/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm of course completely in favor of securing something outright if
that works and the name is good. I think though that it would be
better to have an awkward domain name (and blame it on the internet)
than to have an awkward conference name (which everyone will blame on
us).
That is a perfect point. We're much more about the conference and things
in-person than we are about the online part (in such a way that the website
only suppliments the conference, and not the other way around). So what if
someone gets the domain? It goes along with other issues, like for example
Windows 2000 has a domain at
Windows2000.com, I believe, that redirects to
the subdomain of Microsoft's site (sorry for the evil empire reference, but
it's what I could think of), and I think we could have the same thing here.
People like myself are more likely to search using google or another search
engine for something that I do not know the site for. I think it would be
much the same with someone else.