How about lazarus-rad.org ?

Jeff.

sounds good to me also...

Cliff

I guess I should have given everyone a little more information before just asking for opinions. I'm afraid that the follow domains are already spoken for.

lazarus.com
lazarus.org

So that means that obvious ones are already taken. We need to be creative with the name we use. Here are some suggestions. You can vote on these suggest some others.

lazarus-ide.org
lazaruside.org
fpc-lazarus.org

Please forgive my ignorance to the free-software movement... but, I quite frankly don't care if its .com or .org. Being a .org costs the same amount of money as .com, and there are hundreds if not thousands of organizations which are non-profit that have .com addresses. There is NO distinction on the internet of the TODAY between .com, .net, and .org. To have tunnel vision and say "we can only be .org" is a BIG MISTAKE in my opinion. Go ahead and register the .org if you can get it. However, how much time and effort will be spent on internic trying to move the freepascal.org domain over to another host? I say keep that on the back burner, and grab the .COM while it exists.

Per Michael's message:

Last week friday I was put on hold for 40 minutes. Call from Belgium to the USA. At the prices we have here (1-2$ a minute) you can imagine :(

My math indicates a minute, that call cost 60 dollars. Name registration cost 70 dollars. We could have had freepascal.com registered with the money spent chasing those tell me how important .ORG really is.

This is my 2 cents on the issue.

== Ron

At 06:02 PM 7/17/99 -0400, you wrote:

This is probably obvious to most, but when you are "checking" for available domain names,
PLEASE use the checker at networksolutions only. I have noted that there are many "fake" internics, like www.internic.com and stuff, and if you punch your domain in there, chances are they might go ahead and register it first and then attempt to sell it to you for a higher price.

I dont trust them.

The address to use to check name availability is:

http://www.networksolutions.com/

freepascal.com is available
lazarus-rad.com is also available

I would grab these and link them both to the lazarus web site, imho :)

Better yet just use "whois". If you use that you can do something like

whois lazarus

and get every name that has lazarus in it in any way.

freepascal.com is available

Since MVC is going for freepascal.org maybe he should also get freepascal.com.

lazarus-rad.com is also available

That's not a bad one.

Don't use a .COM domain; we're and .ORG domain; this is GPL-ed code;
then you'll see that freepascal.org IS taken.

Michael.

Jeffrey A. Wormsley wrote

How about lazarus-rad.org ?

I like this one. It is more what we are after isn't it.