Re: Dropping 2 old domain names

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 <uwog@uwog.net> 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
> >
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 31 23:17:38 2013