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- burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19This means drupal.com -> drupal.org. drupal.com used to be cybersquatters.
- walugi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Sorry to seem ignorant but does anyone fully understand the meaning of this?
- NinJA999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@waluigi the point is a lot of people accidentally typed drupal.com instead of drupal.org and before it used to take them to a spam site, but now it takes them to drupal.org
- RicJohnsonIII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3ShrimpCrackers - you are wrong in a a few important parts:
There WAS a squatter on Drupal.Com that was profiting from the traffic.
We (OpenDomian) bought the domain, but we are NOT squatters - we gave the domain to Dries for FREE. We did ask for a link (which they originally did agree to do), but I decided the best way to support their community was a direct donation.
OpenDomain is NOT for profit. We do NOT pretend to be OpenSource - our high profile domains cost between $10,000 to $25,000 USD EACH. Our contribution IS a little different, but you have to agree is fairly significant. - gloscon, on 11/11/2009, -0/+1Awesome - I wish I had that domain.. but Dries truely deserves this.
http://www.gloscon.com - Company that has executed over 100 Drupal Projects. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED:
The creators of Drupal, brought the domain name Drupal.org, and released the very popular CMS on that domain. Some jerks brought Drupal.com and put a price on it for a few thousand dollars, basically cybersquatting the Drupal.com name.
What made it worse was that Drupal.com was getting a lot of traffic. Sometimes people would even think the site was down or something.
Open Domains, a for profit company that sort of pretends to be opensource brought the domain and asked the users what to do with it, and proposed some business plans and what not, a half-way squatting in the eyes of the Drupal Community. This drew the ire of the Drupal community who was suspicious that some guy just brought their domain for a thousands, but said that he'd let the community decide what to do with the Drupal.com domain, but only if it could offer some profit in a way like www.Wordpress.com versus www.Wordpress.org. (visit it and it'll be absolutely clear whats going on, Wordpress.com offers services and hosting for Wordpress and Wordpress.org is for the actual script itself).
In the end the OpenDomains guy just gave the domains to Drupal, effectively a donation of no less than $3000+.for the price of what OpenDomains paid the cybersquatters. That was a good move I'd think after years of frustration and agaony. - fabio76, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Yes anything started with the mispelling of the URl extention I use drupal for my website:
http://best-movies-review.com
And I think is great - andersonmanly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5That was awful nice.
- brchcar1445, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1Wow that was pretty generous!
http://thehowtohut.com/computers/how-to-speed-up-m ... - fabio76, on 11/20/2009, -0/+1Thank you for the extraordinary post!
Really cool.
I think this web sites are very absorbing and with good articles.
http://www.megafoo.com/web/best-movies-review.com
http://www.megafoo.com/web/blog.best-movies-review ...
http://www.megafoo.com/web/johnnyconrnelius.com
http://www.megafoo.com/web/best-article-directory. ...
http://www.megafoo.com/web/mmcarline.it
http://blog.best-movies-review.com
http://johnnyconrnelius.com
http://best-article-directory.info
http://best-article-directory.info/sitemap - RicJohnsonIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.OpenDomain.Org is the project I run that has contributed this and other very large domains. If you think this is worthwhile, please contact us!
- emorydunlap871, on 09/17/2009, -0/+0http://newbluraydvdplayers.com
There's great domains out there for everyone! This was a nice thing. - susann30rj, on 11/20/2009, -0/+0Thats great when people donate to non-profit organizations
http://oplinex.info - Interex, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6oatmeals: If you find that this story is not newsworthy ignore it, otherwise remove the Industry News Topic from your front page and shut up. I'm so tired of these "How did this get on the front page", or "this isn't newsworthy" comments. Digg gives you the option to remove the topics you don't want, I suggest you do it and stop complaining about it.
The point of this story is to tell the people who are interested in the technology industry about the generosity of OpenDomain and how its helping the open source community. - bsonline, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Drupal is an open source script for making community websites. I have one at http://meetthegamer.com, and you can see many examples at Drupal.org. According to the post on Drupal, an organization bought the domain and donated it to Drupal. Apparently, they go around buying expensive domains and donating them to open source efforts.
Personally, I think expensive "parked" domains should be left there. Buying them just encourages the owner to go buy several more. If the .com was really expensive, Drupal could have used a cash donation much more than the .com, since everything Drupal went straight to http://drupal.og. Meanwhile, thanks to whomever for doing it, anyway. - sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1pfff sellout.
- YumZ, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1That font is disgusting.
- walugi, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Is that it? A website changed from .com to .org?
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? - oatmeals, on 10/12/2007, -25/+1Nah, you're not ignorant. Non newsworth items are getting on the frontpage! I call upon the masses to bury this news article.
Sept30, never forget.
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