Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

[Warren T. <wt...@re...>]

I personally think shorter domain names are particularly attractive and 
effective.  pidgin.im would get my vote.

Do you have a 501(c)3?  I'd even donate that much or more if I could get 
the tax deduction.

Warren Togami
wt...@re...

Sean Egan wrote:
> So, domain names. http://pidgin-im.[com|org|net] seems reasonable. It
> reminds me a bit too much of Miranda, though.
> 
> Luke says that .im domains go for 40 pounds/yr; I wouldn't mind paying
> that out of my own pocket. pidgin.com is squatted; we could see how
> much they want.
> 
> Someone above mentioned purplepidgin.com. We could play on the homing
> pidgin thing and grab homingpidgin, messengerpidin, carrierpidgin or
> something.
> 
> I think pidgin-im is probably the best choice.
> 
> -s.
> 
> On 8/14/06, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
>> Just FYI, the lawyers did a more thorough check on Pidgin. They found this:
>> A self-learning cross lingual interface based at the University of
>> Twente in the Netherlands, but some of the links are broken and the site
>> hasn't been updated since 2003:
>> http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Projects/pidgin.html
>>
>> Fotopages, a photo sharing site, appears to be run by a company called
>> Pidgin Technologies Ltd, though they seem to be focusing on the
>> Fotopages name.  I don't see any social networking or chat components here.
>> http://pidgintech.fotopages.com/
>>
>> Pidgin Productions, "Producers Integrated Development Group, Initiatives
>> and Network", is a non-profit in England focused on promoting cultural
>> diversity in moving image media
>> http://www.pidgin.org.uk/
>>
>> Pidgen ML is a core subset of the Objective Caml programing language:
>> http://www.inria.fr/rapportsactivite/RA2005/signes/uid40.html
>>
>> The Pidgen Compiler is a retired tool of Cornell University's Computer
>> Science Department's Intelligent Software Systems:
>> http://iss.cs.cornell.edu/p.aspx
>>
>> None of these projects are considered a bar from us using the name Pidgin.
>>
>> -s.
>>