From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T03:45:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Ben Giddings wrote:
>
> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> > In message "Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity"
> >     on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:04:42 +0900, Ben Giddings
> <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> writes:
> >
> > |It may be that netidentity has nobody actually using the ruby.org
> > |domain, or at least so few that they might be willing to sell it.
> >
> > It's no harm to ask them.  I had tried for ruby.net before, but the
> > domain holder did not respond.  Maybe I was not too good at
> > negotiation.  Is someone willing to ask netidentity?
>
> Hi Matz,
>
> Thanks for spotting my email.  (I was afraid that by replying in a
> semi-abandoned thread it might get missed).
>
> I'd nominate the people who are behind the Ruby Central Inc. non-profit
> (Chad Fowler and/or David Alan Black).  I think being a certified
> non-profit gives them more clout, and might make netidentity more open
> to listening.

While it true that it can't hurt to ask, the lack of hits in your search
merely failed to turn up the way it is being used (I've been a customer of
NetIdentity since the beginning of their existence)...

NetIdentity rents "designer" email addresses. That's why my email address id
curt(at)hibbs.com. I don't own the hibbs.com domain, but I get my email
service through them (as do many of my relatives whose last names are also
Hibbs). NetIdentity hold many thousands of domains.

The fact that you didn't get any google hits is mostly because no one has
renting the associated web space from them (www.hibbs.com).

I think it is unlikely that they would give up the domain, but it still
can't hurt to ask.

It might be better to try to snap up one or more of the newer top-level
domains.

Curt