[Buildroot] Why web search engine wrong for the Buildroot URL

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Fri Mar 2 08:40:00 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Le Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:04:40 +0100,
> Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> It seems we have both a .net and .org address now. The announcements
>> of 2012.02 use the .net address.
>> However, personally I would prefer the .org address, which is more
>> common in open-source projects in my (subjective) experience.
>
> I agree, but, if I remember correctly, we don't "own" the .org domain
> name, it is only kindly provided by its owner. So we have no guarantee
> of its long-term availability.
>
> Maybe we could discuss with its owner the possibility of transferring
> its ownership (and associated costs) to the Buildroot project?

To me that sounds like a good idea. The owner is indicated as Earl Levine.
I suppose Peter has been in contact with him before?



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