[sword-devel] PocketSword domain name

[Nic Carter]

heya Ian (& everyone else)  :)

This is where timezones and work can make my replies very late!

Normally I would be extremely happy to take it off your hands, but there has been some discussion about a change of name for PocketSword . . .  Apparently some cultures don't like the Bible being compared to a weapon, as it reminds them of the Crusades or something like that?  I'm open to suggestions for what to (possibly!) rename it to, but if people want to do that, please email me privately so as to not have a discussion like that on a developers mailing list!  Or, if you want other ppl to see your suggestion, post it to the user forums: http://www.crosswire.org/forums/mvnforum/listthreads?forum=16

So, it's probably best to let it fade away, if the name is possibly going to change sometime soon?

Thanks heaps Ian  :)
ybic
	nic...  :)

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Nic Carter
PocketSword Developer - an iPhone Bible Study app
http://crosswire.org/pocketsword

On 21/01/2010, at 4:57 AM, Ian Wagner wrote:

> Ok, that makes sense. I am happy to keep paying for the domain and redirect it to the crosswire servers if you can give me the information that I need. I'm assuming you have a static IP that I can just put in an A record or something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ian
> ---------------
> Dr!nk m0r3 J0lt ^_^
> 
> On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
>> Ian, thank you for the offer. CrossWire historically hasn't made it a policy to register unique domain names for each of our projects.
>> We're happy to provide services and a web presence like:
>> 
>> http://crosswire.org/pocketsword
>> 
>> but projects come and go and get renamed as people come and go so often around here, registering unique domain names for each project would be a mess.
>> 
>> Many of our project leaders indeed do register unique domains and maintain these themselves, and we'd be happy to support them with web space and the like if they want to point their DNS entry to our server, but it is the responsibility of that project to maintain registration of a unique domain if they desire to have one.
>> 
>> So, in conclusion, you're welcome to point the domain to our servers and we'll do the work to setup our servers to point request to the domain to the appropriate docroot and other services, and obviously Nic or someone else has every right to take you up on your offer to transfer ownership and responsibility of the domain name, but CrossWire currently does not admin ownership of project-unique domain names.
>> 
>> I hope you understand.  Thank you for your generous heart throughout your work on PocketSword.
>> 
>> 
>> Troy
>> 
>> 
>> Barry Drake wrote:
>>> Ian Wagner wrote:
>>>> Sorry I haven't brought this up sooner, as I have been bogged down with school, but something does need to be done with the pocketsword.net domain name so that confusion does not result. 
>>> In the same vein, would it be sensible to ask David Trotz if he still wants the swordreader.org domain name?  I would have thought that he might be happy to transfer it to crosswire if we ask him.
>>> Gid bless,
>>> Barry
>>> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church.  See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages.
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