[okfn-discuss] Terrible Search results for "open license"

Mon May 23 19:18:29 UTC 2011

+1

I think *.okfn.org domains look nice. ;-)

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> * [2011-05-20 09:39:53 +0100] Jason Kitcat <jason.kitcat at okfn.org> écrit:
>
> ] The Apache Foundation, on whom we loosely model ourselves organisationally,
> ] have dealt with this to an extent via subdomains. Which is probably the best
> ] compromise between SEO and project independence once can aim for.
> ]
> ] e.g.
> ] http://httpd.apache.org
> ] http://directory.apache.org
> ] etc
>
> A big +1 to this. For anyone who remembers when it was still possible
> to register a domain with Internic without paying up-front, the domain
> squatters would register everything they could think of and this was
> incredibly at odds with the whole architecture of DNS. There are shades
> of that in the "register a new domain for each idea" - its not abusive
> in the same way, but it is still not good engineering practice. I fully
> support the likes of Google who try to use their position to encourage
> behaviour that follows the principles upon which the Internet was
> founded.
>
> Cheers,
> -w
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