[Swift-devel] Domain name

[Daniel S. Katz]

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On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I apologize for the confusion: .org was the only root domain being considered.
> 
> The choice to be made is swift-lang.org vs. swiftlang.org for what we publicize.
> 
> So far there are 3 votes for swift-lang and 1 for either. Any more votes?
> 
> The other question was about forwarding all alias names to the single publicized URL. That seems to be answered now: Google provides tools to consolidate the chosen name, and user bookmarks and old references will all get forwarded to that name by our server.
> 
> Once this is all set up we can start using and publicizing the new name.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ketan Maheshwari" <ketancmaheshwari at gmail.com>
>> To: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
>> Cc: "swift-devel" <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>, "Vytas Cuplinskas" <vytas at ci.uchicago.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 1:55:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Domain name
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>> I like swift-lang.org :
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>> 
>> Other similar ones on quick search yield:
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>> 
>> Google's go: http://golang.org
>> erlang: http://www.erlang.org
>> scala: http://www.scala-lang.org
>> haskell: http://www.haskell.org
>> 
>> 
>> org seems to be the trend. with hyphen sounds clearer.
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>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, David Kelly < davidk at ci.uchicago.edu
>>> wrote:
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>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> 
>> Mike wanted me to email the list to see if there was a consensus on
>> what our primary domain name should be. I think the idea is to have
>> one domain name be the official site, then have the others redirect
>> there. The list we have:
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>> 
>> 
>> swiftlang.org
>> swiftlang.com
>> swiftlang.net
>> swift-lang.org
>> swift-lang.com
>> swift-lang.net
>> 
>> 
>> At the moment, swiftlang.org and swift-lang.org are both configured
>> to load the Swift page.
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>> 
>> My preference is swift-lang.org .
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>> 
>> David
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>> From: "Michael Wilde" < wilde at mcs.anl.gov >
>> To: "swift-devel" < swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu >
>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 7:25:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] Domain name
>> 
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>> 
>> I got swiftlang.org and swift-lang.org
>> 
>> We can initially forward them to the www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift site,
>> then later get the site to appear as if its hosted at the new domain
>> name.
>> 
>> - Mike
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Tim Armstrong" < tim.g.armstrong at gmail.com >
>>> To: "swift-devel" < swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu >
>>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:01:33 PM
>>> Subject: [Swift-devel] Domain name
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Following up on the earlier discussion, swift-lang.org isn't taken.
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>>> 
>>> - Tim
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