From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T04:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Curt Hibbs wrote:
> 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).

Right, but do a google search for "hibbs.com", within the first few 
links I find "Dr@Hibbs.com", "mitchell@hibbs.com", and RubyTalk entries 
from you.  OTOH, when I search for ruby.org, and try to get rid of the 
Ruby-language related entries I find... almost nothing.  Maybe hibbs is 
a more common last name, but it seems to me that I should find a few 
random ruby.org addresses in there.

Here's a URL for a google search that tries to find "ruby.org" without 
ruby-language links:

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&q=%22ruby.org%22+-programming+-python+-xml+-jp&btnG=Search

(i.e. search for ruby.org without "programming", "python", "xml" or "jp")

There are less than 400 of them, and virtually all of them appear to be 
related to the language, a few others are links to ruby.org.uk, but I 
can't find any bare "ruby.org" links that aren't related to the language.

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

Might as well get both, if possible.  People are already accidentally 
linking to ruby.org, and I think it's the most natural domain for the 
Ruby language.

Ben