Re: Dropping 2 old domain names
Kathiravelu Pradeeban <[email protected]>
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+1 for dropping them. To be honest, I was not even aware of the existence of those two domains. Thank you. Regards, Pradeeban. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:27 PM, J.M. Maurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All! > > As the old-timers here remember, AbiSource Inc., the founders of > Abiword, went belly-up in 1999. From then on this community took the > AbiWord project to a whole new level. > > Somewhere in the previous decade we took over all the AbiWord related > domain names that where still owned by SourceGear, the parent company of > AbiSource Inc. They are currently in my name, since I've been paying for > them ever since (with love :). > > We currently own the following names: > > abisource.com > abisource.org > abiword.com > abiword.org > abisuite.com > abisuite.org > > Now I was wondering if someone would object to us dropping the two > abisuite names. We never use them, and almost no-one links to them. > The only reason 2 reasons they exist is because 1) AbiSource Inc. > planned to create a while suite of applications (a word processor, > spreadsheet, presentation, etc), but they never had the change to start > hacking on it, and 2) Nostalgia :) > > It would save me a few bucks a month. If someone else would like to own > them, that's fine too of course. > > Cheers, > Marc > -- Kathiravelu Pradeeban. Postgraduate Student, Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. Blog: [Llovizna] http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/