pidginim.org and pidginim.com

[Mark Doliner]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:54:43 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote
> Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Sean asked me to look at transfering pidginim.com and pidginim.org to
> > our control from the person offering them to us. 
> > 
> > While we have trivially set them up to point to the same ip as
> > homing.pidgin.im, transfering them requires somewhat more work.
> > 
> > Most importantly, transfering them requires I pay $8.95 per domain for a
> > 1 year registration, and $134.72 per domain for a 10 year registration
> > (there are a range of prices between these).  This is using dotster, the
> > registrar I used for imfreedom.org (and for some of my personal
> > domains).  pidgin.im itself was donated, but was not transfered to our
> > control.
> 
> I am ambivalent as to whether or not we buy these, or care about them
> at all; if we decide we do care, $9/year seems reasonable to me.

I'm in favor of transferring them to us.  Registering them for 4 years seems
like a good amount of time.  And $9/year seems reasonable to me.  $72 seems
like a low price to pay for a little brand stability.

-Mark