On 6/10/25 11:20 PM, Ivan Vučica wrote:
Gregory has the keys-to-the-kingdom with the registration of gnustep.org
<http://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.
To avoid buying a domain for each app, perhaps register a shared domain
(such as gnustep.app or gs.app), and use subdomains? (E.g. gnumail.gs.app,
ink.gnustep.app, etc.).
The top level (gnustep.app, gs.app) could display a list of GNUstep apps -
either a redirect to the wiki's Applications page, or by hosting something like
the (now-defunct) GNUstep Software Index:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220702001135/http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/
