On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Riccardo, > > Am 27.05.2025 um 21:59 schrieb Riccardo Mottola < > [email protected]>: > > personally I am not such interested in the domain... never though about > ".app" domains either. > Too much marketing I don't want to take on... > > On the other hand GNUmail has a quite minimal home. It was though somehow > to be temporary, I hoped to get in contact with Ludovic, but it never > happened. Years passed Original site is now a scam site. > gnustep-nonfsf was active with German, but I don't have seen commits from > him since a long time.... I wonder if the rest of the stuff there is > essentially orphaned. > > Riccardo > > > A registered domain doesn’t mean a new site, we could just point it to > https://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUMail.app for the time being. I > just thought that it would be better, if GNUstep has registered that > domain, before another scammer comes around and does this before we do. > > Who is responsible for registering domains on behalf of GNUstep? > Gregory has the keys-to-the-kingdom with the registration of gnustep.org, I'd expect him to be the main decision maker. But -- note that these non-traditional TLDs usually have an increased cost past the first year. For example, one registrar is proudly advertising a discount from €24.51 to mere €12.25/1st yr, the latter of which is normal pricing for traditional non-country-code TLDs. This is assuming they don't arbitrarily increase the cost when they get the chance -- or that it is even the real price. To check that, I would have to enter the domain name, and the very act of searching can make the other party in the act of searching ... act up. So I'd rather not check this. I can only speak for myself, but these prices (an ongoing yearly cost) are why I would not be interested in exploring .app for myself or others any time soon. This stuff adds up, and I already have around 6 domains I renew yearly, so I would not pitch in for a vanity domain. Where do we stop -- do we get GWorkspace.app (another $24 past first year), Ink.app (probably way more than $24 if possible at all), Gorm.app? This would balloon very quickly. If the website host needs to handle another hostname, that's no problem, let me know once the domain is registered. But I'm not sure registering the domain itself is a great idea.
