Re: [libreoffice-website] LibreOffice.XX some sites do not work

How many registration 2-digit country codes do we need?

One for every country or language that LO supports?

One for every country that has a group large enough to support its own 
2-digit code?

Is there any "rulings" on who gets to have a LibreOffice.xx domain?

How far are we willing to go?
LibreOffice.TV

   [.tv is actually an island nation's 2-digit code where - last time I
   knew - half of the money raised for registration goes to funding
   education and the other half goes to the company who got the
   contract to be the "technical managers" the .tv domain registrations]

LibreOffice.US [is used?]
LibreOffice.CA
LibreOffice.GB
LibreOffice.ZA
LibreOffice.org.CA
LibreOffice.com.CA
LibreOffice.net.CA
etc., etc.

Actually we could buy the domain of LibreOffice.SUITE, if we had the big 
money needed to create such a domain name suffix.  It was opened up this 
past year for "you" to have/create new domain suffixes as long as you 
paid the big fees.

I do hope that no one decides to buy LibreOffice.XXX, which is a legal 
one, but that suffix was founded for the pron industry, but not "truly 
limited" to that.

But seriously, there should be a published statement on what is the best 
policy on who "should" register a domain of LibreOffice.xx.  I created 
LibreOffice-NA.US to mean a LibreOffice site based in North America and 
specifically in the USA.  Also, adding the "-NA" after LibreOffice, I 
thought it could indicate that there is a project for LibreOffice with 
NA/North-America in its name. Or something like that.  Maybe there could 
be LibreOffice-CA.?? for Central America project with a country 2-digit 
code for Panama or other country in Central America.

We could use a guideline for domain naming.  We can not enforce it, 
since anyone can register a domain that is not taken yet.  But if we had 
a guideline ruling, it could be published somewhere, where is is easy to 
find.  Then people could have some tips on what is the best ways to name 
a LibreOffice domain, or at least one that looks more professional and 
understandable to what it is to represent.  pt.LibreOffice.org or 
LibreOffice.pt as Portuguese language version of the "official" LO web 
site.  Then LibreOffice-HI.pt as a LibreOffice "project" with Portuguese 
as its "default" language ,  or like ".us" would be "American/USA 
English" as its default language or project location.

It would be more "professional" for LibreOffice to publish such a 
guideline.  It would make sense to do so.  Also, if TDF/LO had the cash 
to do so, they should register most of the popular domain suffixes and 
country codes like .com, .net, .us, .ca, .info, .mobi, .me, .co, .biz, 
.asia, .tv, and so forth, and so forth.  ".tv" cost about $40 a year, 
where ".asia" is about $20.  ".info" is right now on sale for $2 instead 
of $12 per year.  ".info" might be good.  LibreOffice.Info as a web URL 
for information about LibreOffice.  ".org" was originally for 
not-for-profit organizations or groups.

Well, that is my 20 cents worth, instead of just 2 cents.

On 12/14/2011 09:02 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc
>
> Le 2011-12-14 19:23, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit :
> > Libreoffice.br is impossible to register ? ... it should be something 
> > like .
> > org.br or .com.br
> >
> > actually our libreoffice.org.br redirects to pt-br.libreoffice.org ...
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Rogerio
> >
> > 2011/12/14 Marc Paré<marc@marcpare.com>
> >
> > > Could someone check on the LibreOffice.ca; LibreOffice.us sites? 
> > > They are
> > > not working. Maybe the DNS are wrong?
> > >
> > > Also, do we not own the LibreOffice.fr site? There are Google ads on 
> > > the
> > > front page and footer. It doesn't look like a site that is run by 
> > > the TDF.
> > > In fact it almost looks like LibreOffice is endorsing some PDF software
> > > which I doubt we are doing. Someone should look into this.
> > >
> > > All of the other NL LibreOffice.NL sites should be checked to see if 
> > > they
> > > land on the appropriate pages.
> > >
> > > LibreOffice.ca is NOT WORKING
> > > LibreOffice.us is NOT WORKING
> > > LibreOffice.de is OK
> > > LibreOffice.es is OK
> > > LibreOffice.it is OK
> > > LibreOffice.jp is NOT WORKING
> > > LibreOffice.pt is NOT WORKING
> > > LibreOffice.br is NOT WORKING
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
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