--- Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> "Göran" Hultgren <gohu at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> > Good point. My motive for choosing .com was that most people would try that domain "by
> default".
> > Another argument was that linuxworld, javaworld etc. all have .com and at least the feel of
> those
> > sites match my initial idea about how squeakworld would be, although I would like the site
> more
> > "community driven" than those are.
> 
> It saddens me that so many computer professionals make decisions they
> know are technically wrong, and then justify it by appeals to what they
> think neophyte users will expect.

Well, it was not ALL based on that! :-) And I do not think of it as "technically wrong" - or is
there actually a definition of what is "right" for a .com domain? A .org is more defined, at least
in my perception.
 
> It's not obviously a wrong choice.
> 
> However, I submit that many people *do* know the difference between .com
> and .org, and those people will be alienated by a site that chooses
> incorrectly.  Such people are going to get the wrong impression when
> they see a .com address (it's already happened once on this list!), and
>
> they are actually likely to try a .org address first if they are typing
> in URL's manually.

Well...
 
> Since the audience is Smalltalk programmers, they are especially likely
> to grok this difference.

I agree with you partly on all accounts - or at least I would like to agree!

But still - I want Squeakworld to "feel" almost like those other .com sites, so I do not think
that people will get "surprised" when they find a site that actually feels like that. But the
other way around would feel strange though.

And perhaps we WILL end up having ads - even if we will use that money to pay for articles, run
the site etc (without profit, that is). And in such a case .org would have been even less right,
IMHO.

But hey - I have to admit, I did not give it this much thought when I registered it! :-)

> Overall, it's not a terribly big deal.  I just hate seeing reasonable
> standards get ignored because of what's percieved to be popular.

Well, I agree again. And perhaps, as someone suggested we could register other domains too. I hope
that this does not defer you from perhaps helping out with Squeakworld? :-)
 
regards, Göran

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Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Gandhi

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