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www.YourOpenSourceProject.cx is Free
The_Jazzman writes, "Nic.cx is now offering completely free domains to those with open-source projects. Check out
FAQ question 2.16."
CX is Christmas Island. They're running on free software and want to give back to the community. Serious inquiries only, please. Don't abuse their kindness.
Thats some generousity to be commended.
This is absolutely wonderful. I'm glad to see that Cx is doing what others wont. Perhaps a new net extension of .open or .source could be added and provided free of charge too. Hell, they wanna do .shop and many others, so why not one for us? The unsung heres of the *nix community! Might be nice to have a donation driven server which hosts open source and other non-profit sites on a donation basis only... Any takers?
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- Temperature: 77 F (25 C)
- Dew Point: 73 F (23 C)
- Relative Humidity: 88%
I don't know about you but this doesn't seem to be the most appropriate conditions for keeping your servers fine and funky...The only Good System is a Sound System
Where are the actual computers located for these people? I'm assuming that they haven't laid in some fancy T3s into these remote places just to do DNS...
.nu, etc).
Same question goes for all these small domains (.tv,
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Checking host: www.nic.cx port 80
(Which is really MargeSimpson.planet-three.net with an IP address of 195.224.98.195)
Operating system: 195.224.98.195:80 * Linux 1.2.xx
Web server software: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12
It seems cheap anyway. But can someone explain why they have prices in pounds? I thought Christmas Island used Australian Dollars.
The only Good System is a Sound System
Just a quick question, is there any word on any more stringent policy for what is or isn't a valid Open Source project? It seems fair enough that they are saying a) If we give you a domain we aren't going to rip it off you except for damn good reasons and b) we are trying to help out Open Source projects, but I'm just a little wary that it's a little open to abuse (Hello LinuxOne!), as it's at least a by default endorsement that you are running a legit Open Source project.
I know I sound paranoid (please! It's late where I live!), and this is a nice idea, I just don't want the cons to out way the pros here.
Would an explicit mention on the website with regards to what license your software is under (ie. GPL, BSD etc.) be enough?
Just wondering.....
I sure hope that this offer doesn't go under due to abuse of their offer. Reminds me of the free pc story that was posted earlier. Sure the idea was good, and the execution was bad, but i think some of there undoing was the people who turned off their ads. "Mac's are fast, you just have to be patient."
May be, these guys can organised a Open source festival...
Anyway I will go there one day.
How much more coolness points does .cx has over $(SUBJ)?
If places like these see their local economy improving thru these sorts of schemes then ...
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This is not about hosting, but about free domain names.
Cx's registrants can still make their DNS point to sourceforge.net if they want. Free DNS services are available from different sites (like Granite Canyon for example,) so opensource webmasters don't even have to pay for that either.
Just registered my last name. Hopefully .cx won't be to hard for friends to remember. The price is low, registration was easy. They don't even require payment at registration time - they give you a month to pay! They will do mail forwarding and redirect www.yourdoamin.cx to where ever for people that don't have their own DNS and mail servers.
Okay, who asked Santa last christmas for a free domain?
- Peter Brodersen; professional nerd
I just grabbed a domain, the registration is laid out nicely (can't comment on speed cause my net link is saturated DLing Redhat6.2 ;) my only gripe is that passwords are flying around in the clear.
Unless of course Larry has a wicked sense of humour and does like to Troll /. which I most seriously hope is not true.
I know that it's not the usual thing for Slashdot to censor but maybe this would be one case where it is fiscally the right thing to do.
Matt Thompson - Actuality - Insert product here.
Wonder how long it'll take before we see "openwarez.cx" and "freeisos.cx" coming up abusing their service. "My site is open source!" Heh...
------- What exactly is real?
I must apologize for referring to Mr. Malda as "Captain Taco" in previous statements. I received over a dozen letters from Slash-dotters like yourselves informing me of my mistake, which brings me to this point: I encourage you to let me know your opinions (and correct me if I misspeak).
Funny..i always thought his name was "Commander Taco"
Darn. Now I'm feeling old.
Not to be a complete wet blanket, but am I the only one that thinks using domain names as resource locators is wrong? I appreciate what they're doing, but in the end, we're not helping things by propogating the idea that a domain name must be inherently attached to something (often, the ONLY thing) it's named after?
Almost all of our DNS problems come from the misguided attempt of people to solve the "location" problem via domain names. People, that's not what DNS is for, period, end of argument.
Instead of caving to the masses, why aren't we working towards the real solution, a Content Registration System. Yahoo and all the portals are the first step, but really, folks, they're pretty primitive. The web spiders can no longer index the web (it's too big, and changes too fast). Rather, shouldn't we have some central place for people to register their sites? By that, I mean the content of their sites? And perhaps, provide periodic updates of their content indexes?
Sorry for the rant, and I realize this isn't exactly on topic, but DNS is really creaking these days, and it's starting to hurt me. Plus, the current situation is just, well, sooooo unaesthetic.
-Erik
There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened.
When reading the comments below, it is easy to see what effect this has had. A lot of people have discovered the .cx domain and registered - with real money, it seems. A smart marketing move, rather than just saying 'thank you' to open source. But then again, that is the way of our capitalistic society (and that's not something bad). Now for me, back to the social economics book....
Is it me and do I not get it, or is this ultimate freedom of speech, or is this the next thing akin to spam ?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
I don't think so. Webster's New Collegiate sez: "... used with the name of a discipline to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one".
Actually, the link should be to this question.
I registered a domain with them, and all worked well back when Slashdot first reported that they were up and running. They were free at first, but made it clear that a charge was comming. It looks like they intend for the Open Source project domains to be free forever, but I'd get that in writing if I were you....
I would suggest that exercising caution would be the flavour of the day here
/. reads this, many of you feel the need to whip out your credit cards and buy yourself a little chunk of digital Christmas Island :) - but beware! /. article there will be high traffic and more transactions than normal; leading to a greater chance of our parasitic little friend landing himself a catch.......
;)
:))
Not meaning to defame the offer presented in any way; in fact this has less to do with free registrations at nic.cx as it has to do with the premium ones.
You see, as everyone on
The same time you are whipping out your CC, someone else may be whipping out their packet sniffer - mainly because they know that with a
Im not saying that Slashdot is full of these guys (and gals) just waiting to pounce but there maybe one or two - so just be careful.
I would suggest waiting a couple of days for far better security
There, thats my little piece said, now you can all tell me how paranoid I am
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Oh really, Hadron? And who, exactly would that be, hmmm?
You see, the UK is "ruled" by an elected government of MPs under the lead of a Prime Minister, elected by the residents of the UK (the MPs are elected by the people, that is).
Australia has its own government, elected by those who live in Australia.
Neither government "rules" the other country in any way, so your claim to the contrary is completely wrong.
Now, it may be that you were getting confused with the Head of State, HM Queen Elizabeth who is, indeed, the Head of State for both countries (and several others besides), but HM is NOT the "ruler" of any country - please, Hadron, check your facts before posting, eh?
There isn't a Slashdot Giveaway
This is a bored individual who enjoys misleading people and generating unnecessary email.
Official VA promotions will always be posted on the VA Linux website.
Sorry for the confusion that has been created.
--Kit
Former Inmate, VA Linux Sanitarium
/me is the happy owner of var.cx, great service these guys give. I can really recommend them, they're a lot cheaper than .com too...
Only problem (for me) is that you can't login over SSL, and they don't have (I do not like my pw going in plain text), and they don't have a pgp key for when you want to change your pw.
You all know damn right that this offer will be removed in a matter of weeks. When someone tries to do a "nice thing" for the public, the public is going to milk it for all its worth until it dies. Like they said in The Matrix: we humans comsume everything until there is nothing left, forcing us to abandon what we've acquired.
A million people are going to want a free domain for a million different reasons, and after two weeks of being harassed, nuked, DoS'ed, and threatened, the poor organizers of this free parade are going to withdraw the offer.
Christmas Island was named by Capt. James Cook, who just happenned to spend Christmas there. (He also spent Easter on Easter Island, and named several other islands after dates).
The reason that I know Christmas Island is that it is a mecca for flyfishers. The place is crawling with bonefish. These reflective-scaled fish move into the coral flats to feed on shrimp and crabs. When they hit a fly, they take off for San Francisco. They are a flighty fish and have good eyesight, so you have to know what you are doing with a flyrod in the first place, but bones are supposed to be one of the most addicting flyfishing species around.
Needless to say, if the Christmas Island authorities want to hire some Linux guy to help set up their networking, I would gladly volunteer.
I do what the voices on my console tell me to do.
How did you get a score of 4 without any moderation type showing? If my memory server me when Hemos and Roblimo post replies to stories, they start at a 'normal' moderation level and have to rely on the good will of the moderators at large.
Have I missed something or is this VA correcting its public image with a special moderated account? I understand totally the motivation and personally cannot think of any other way of disprooving the fake Larry posts, but surely you should let the moderators notice your comment and moderate it up in the normal fashion.
In fact, looking back at your past history, it seems that all five of your posts have started at a moderation level of 4...
The only Good System is a Sound System
Isn't this the same company that offered *free* .cx domains a year or so ago only to turn around and try to CHARGE people for them 2 months later? Yes, I think it is.
Nice way to gather personal information to serve your real purpose.
Haven't you realized yet? VALinux buys Andover == end of editorial independence (as if CmdrTaco, etc. ever had any to begin with). A couple million bucks in fresh IPO money sure buys a lot of karma.
Hi all,
I originally posted this story after a friend who works at nic.cx told me all about it.
First of all, nic.cx did not *suddenly* decide to start charging for domains last year. If any of the people claiming this actually read anything relevant they would have seen that in the FAQ nic.cx were *always* going to charge for domains.
Next, this is not a two-week offer, it is going to run for as long as the cx domain does. Sometimes genuinly nice things do happen, look at <A HREF=http://www.granitecanyone>Granite Canyon</A> for proof of this. (For those not in the know, GC offer free DNS services).
Finally, I must reiterate, nic.cx are NOT going to start charging for these open-source project domains. Not now, not ever.
Does Slashdot folks get paid by the amount of traffic they serve?
If they do, okay. If they don't, then why is that dopey "flat mode" on by default? It sucks!
Yeah! Just started my own open-source project, OpenDIVX. At opendivx.cx, you can find out how to watch DIVX movies under Linux with your DIVX-ROM drive! OpenDIVX will do its best to attempt to not be sued by Circuit Shitty...er, City.
sup
Occasionally Hemos or Taco will post something automoderated to score: 7 (Brilliant), but generally AFAICT they reserve that for joke posts.
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"HORSE."
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I know there are a lot of people that think that opportunities like this are, and always will be, abused by the idiots that cross the internet and web. But IMHO, i think the pros of this far outweigh the cons. It gives a lot of people out there the chance they need to get their open source projects out there into the community, and hell i think that going to http://www.myopensource.cx is a hell of a lot easier to find then http://www.blah.org/~asdf/asdf/asdf/project.html . There are a lot of good people out there that want to help the community as much as they can, and i think that this step will allow for easier access to projects and allow developers to contribute to the many many great projects that are being developed in the open source community. How about we put our paranoia's aside and just welcome this with open arms.
tourettes
... that "free beer" will be replaced with "free sex"?
I'm trying to start an open source project to relieve some of the stress that many programmers deal with on a day-to-day basis. I think that giving me rights to the domains open-butts.cx and open-sweaty-meat-curtains.cx will further the open source movement (especially the movement of many programmers pants to their ankles....)
Jeremy
"Opinions are like assholes; everyone's got one..."
It could start a whole new way of interactions from buisnesses to the oss community. Give us stuff and in return we will say good things about you and also give you our buisness.
:-)
Why didn't Microsoft think of this? Oh yeah they did, its the only reason they ever got marketshare.
Devil Ducky
MY peers would get out of jury duty.
Why does CI get a TLD for CX? its not a country
.xy ?
or independant nation... its a island that is 100%
owned and run by australia. Why cant it just
have xis.au
Does that mean now my little island whereever can apply for any TLD of
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/kt.h tml
Location: Southeastern Asia, island in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia
Geographic coordinates: 10 30 S, 105 40 E
Map references: Southeast Asia
Area:
total: 135 sq km
land: 135 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Area--comparative: about 0.7 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 138.9 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 12 nm
exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 3 nm
Climate: tropical; heat and humidity moderated by trade winds
Terrain: steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Murray Hill 361 m
Natural resources: phosphate
Land use:
arable land: NA%
permanent crops: NA%
permanent pastures: NA%
forests and woodland: NA%
other: 100% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land: NA sq km
Natural hazards: the narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard
Environment--current issues: NA
Environment--international agreements:
party to: NA
signed, but not ratified: NA
Geography--note: located along major sea lanes of Indian Ocean
People
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Population: 2,373 (July 1999 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: NA
15-64 years: NA
65 years and over: NA
Population growth rate: 7.77% (1999 est.)
Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population
Death rate: NA deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: NA deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: NA
male: NA
female: NA
Total fertility rate: NA children born/woman
Nationality:
noun: Christmas Islander(s)
adjective: Christmas Island
Ethnic groups: Chinese 61%, Malay 25%, European 11%, other 3%, no indigenous population
Religions: Buddhist 55%, Christian 15%, Muslim 10%, other 20% (1991)
Languages: English
Government
Neato-cheeto.
-ed fisher...
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Having a real domain name is much cooler than any of that free nonsense. Not only is it easier to remember, but it shows that you are at least willing to shell out some bucks for your site.
.cx is cool, in line with
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auntfloyd
Interesting fact : 'cx' is the shortest domain name on the internet (although there might be other 2 letter ones around)
Hi.
Just so everyone knows, I read the FAQ, e-mailed them, created an account, registered my domain, and was given my free domain name within 3 hours today.
The person I e-mailed with was very nice. This is a wonderful service they are offering. I was using penguinppwered.com to forward to my IP address before, but had problems with them using my mail server a few times, this is a much better solution.
What a nice gesture.
Ben
Why do you people act like this is something new (nic.cx giving domain names for open source projects)? nic.cx has been giving away domains for several months, maybe even years now! Things have been going fine. Unless they start getting overwhelmed, I don't see any reason why they should stop offering domains for open source projects.
I could see .cx domains becoming sort of a international, non-commercial domain. No indigenous population and an ethnic mix means (hopefully) no intense nationalism and resentment over "foreigners" taking up .cx addresses. Maybe in a few years most sites with something real to say (instead of products to sell) will have .cx in their addresses...
I'd much rather spend my time on things more productive than rebutting fraudulent posts on Slashdot, but some extremely bored individual out there gets his jollies filling the pages with useless garbage.
For the conspiracy theorists, if VA were exerting some level of control over Slash-dot [sic] don't you think Rob & Company would just delete the bogus posts by "VA Linux"?
--Kit
Former Inmate, VA Linux Sanitarium
cx is jointly shortest with the other 237 two letter domain names which represent each country in the world.
The two letter abbreviations are defined by ISO 3166. The only exception I know of is that the UK has ".uk" instead of ".gb".
perl -e 'fork||print for split//,"hahahaha"'
- A poster who claims to be "Larry Augustin" who is posting "useless garbage" for whatever reason (and who consistently (justifiably) gets moderated down to -1).
- A poster who claims to be from "VA Linux" who consistently posts directly after "Larry" discrediting the post with a mysterious bonus moderation score.
- A poster who claims to be "Ed Fisher" who claims to have an email from someone who claims to be "Rob Malda" who denies knowing where these moderation points come from and that he will "look into it and make sure it doesn't happen again".
- A defence of the rebuttal from "Kit" who has since lost his mystery points somewhere or other basically saying that he would much rather do other things "than rebutting fraudulent posts".
- An awful lot of other people such as "Bruce Perens.", "A Hitler", "B Clinton" etc etc who also may or may not be who they are.
Look. Does it really matter whether anybody says anything true of false on slashdot? Surely the moderation system is designed to let the slashdot community dispose of trolls in whichever way is seemed fit. Are you suggesting that we really believed that it was Mr Augustin who was trolling for slashdot? Don't damage the good work that Rob has been doing trying to defend his editorial integrity in the face of increasing pressure from people who would like nothing better than for slashdot to sell out so that they can sit back and say "I told you so". By all means feel free to defend whatever principles you believe in during your posts, but don't compromise your position by abusing the moderation point system. If your reasoning is valid then people will moderate you up, if not then there probably wasn't really a danger from "Larry" in the first place.The only Good System is a Sound System