new domain: d-programming-language.org

[John Reimer]

Chris Miller wrote:
> Sorry about that unfriendly post. I'll try to explain better.
> 
> Google and yahoo search both treat domains with '-' less because they're 
> most likely spam domains. '-' does pretty much no good, and is harder to 
> tell people the site vocally due to having to explain the dashes, and 
> makes it overall sound less appealing.
> Notice that when you google for `d programming` it bolds the whole, 
> non-'.com' part of dprogramming.com because it does do substring 
> searches on domains.
> 
> The other issue is that it's just too long, even without the dashes. I 
> wouldn't be surprised if search engines give lower priority to domains 
> that long as well.
> 
> digitalmars.com and dprogramming.com are fairly long, but they don't 
> exactly go over that "too far" limit like d-programming-language.org does.
> 
> My suggestion is to get dlanguage.org, and also get dlanguage.com to 
> redirect to dlanguage.org.
> There are different reasons for also getting the .com version: many 
> people try .com first; domain squatters watch for .org registrations and 
> hurry up and grab the .com counterparts for spam sometimes; and .com 
> hasn't completely meant 'commercial' for years now, some users even 
> don't know it or assume it means 'computer'.
> 
> - Chris


I agree with Chris and Gregor that the site name is awfully unwieldy. 
dlanguage.org (and com) would be a great choice... Yet I /do/ think the 
"org" post-fix is to be preferred; and I do think it makes a big 
difference to people visiting the site, although I agree that snapping 
up the same *.com address would be a good idea as well.  Whenever I 
visit *.com sites, I always assume a proprietary nature, even though it 
probably qualifies as a knee-jerk reaction.

Nevertheless, I applaud Walter on this step.  I am very happy to see 
he's working towards publicizing D in this way.  It's an important move, 
I think.

-JJR