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Perens Launches 'OpenSourceParking'
miller60 writes "Open source evangelist Bruce Perens has launched OpenSourceParking, a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software. The project is a response to a large gain by Microsoft in the April Netcraft survey, with Windows' share jumping 5 percent as domain registrar Go Daddy moved 4.5 million parked domains from Linux to Windows Server 2003. To regain that share, Perens is calling on open source users to park undeveloped domains at OpenSourceParking, with the advertising revenue being used to fund political advocacy efforts on behalf of open source software. Parking-for-profit has grown into a significant business in recent years. Despite ambivalence over the value of these sites, Perens appears to believe it merits a focused effort for the open source community."
How do you get an Under Construction sign without actual hosting?
Bruce has setup a service to allow your open source project to have an Open Source under construction sign.
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their attitude is quite the oppopsite
http://www.google.com/domainpark/
Mebbe they aren't 'perfect' after all.
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
"The point is that IIS came from 0% to 25% in 5 years, and is still growing."
Uh, apart from this blib in the radar, IIS has been pretty stable at around 20% since october 2003 (and before that date, IIS's share was DROPPING). And if you look at stats at Netcraft, you will see that IIS made an entry to the list back in 1996. So it's 10 years, not 5. In about 18 months, IIS rose to about 20% and now, over EIGHT years later, it's STILL at that 20%!
Oh, be still my beating heart!
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If you clicked on the link, they already attempt to do this via their "Active Sites" which shows Microsoft with a 0.92% gain over the same period. You can read more about how they determine an active site here:
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http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200007.html#acti
We know that.
Unfortunately, it is still the case that most people in the world do not think like us, do not follow the same news sources as us, and don't have your heartfelt belief in Apache's superiority.
It would be nice if the world would just leave us alone to code and run our own software. Unfortunately, they don't. We have to face software patenting, DMCA, TCPA, and whatever new law and technical hurdle they choose to make. To fight these things, we need to get our message to people in general and especially to legislators. Having users is key to this, because no legislator is going to care a bit about your hobby project. Unfortunately, lots of those people who don't think like us count mindshare when they make a technical choice, and the domain parking statistics are just one way that MS makes mindshare.
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I had the same thing happen to me. I was sooooo pissed off because I had considered buying the domain custombots.com at godaddy (added to cart) and stargate.com (added to cart). I came back the next day to purchase and it was taken. I talked to the stargate guys on web chat and spoke with their VP of sales. He swore up and down that they did not do that. And conjectured that maybe Verisign was selling the queries, because that is ultimately where the queries go. I didn't talk to the godaddy people, but it is possible that they are farming the domains not bought and selling the list to potential buyers. I added to cart on Novemeber 14th and it was gone on November 15th 2005.
I checked on cusotmbots.com on the 15th of November and it was purchased by some company in Panama. Looks like since then it has been sold to someone else on March 1. Pisses me off!
There have been many accounts of whois searches being spied on by godaddy and many other registrars.If you do not purchase the domain immediately some company will register it and offer to sell it to you at 10 times the normal price.
Highly unethical but it is happening.A lot.
I guess the best bet is using services like dnsstuff.com or doing it yourself through the command line.
Um, thats simply not true. The availability checks would be done against the central registry. In this case, the .com SRS (shared registration system) run by Verisign. There are "check domain" commands that are issued via the RRP protocol against the SRS specifically for checking the availability of a domain. There is no need for any other registrars to be involved at all, and nor would they be. Com registrations are real time, if the SRS says its taken or available, it is.
P.S. I work for another registrar which is why I'm posting this as an AC.