Re: Dropping 2 old domain names
"J.M. Maurer" <[email protected]>
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Poor domains, all forgotten by everyone :( And now they are even pending cancelation. Cheers, Marc On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 23:39 +0000, Kathiravelu Pradeeban wrote: > +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 > > > > >