[Adium-devl] Killing the X

[David Smith]

	No objections here. Maybe less people would say "Adium X" then :)

On May 3, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> So, adium.im expired so I grabbed it... just in case, right?
>
> This leads me to wonder: should we join our aviary brethren on  
> the .im ccTLD?
>
> We've, as of lately for sure, removed the X from everything we can
> see. The domain name doesn't all-that-much make sense anymore, and
> certainly confuses users. I see "adium.com" a lot with reference to
> us, I'm guessing these users google for "adium" when adium.com screams
> "investment in Florida!" at them.
>
> There's no technical reasons against it (SSL certificate Evan's buying
> is multi-domain; we can just grab a second one), and we can forward
> all *.adiumx.com/* to *.adium.im/* with a permanent redirect to
> preserve our rankings, and to reduce confusion to a minimum about
> older links. Server names and reverse-DNS can be updated ridiculously
> easily. Email will alias over correctly, since adiumx.com would be
> parked on top of adium.im. People would just have to update
> themselves.
>
> Any strong opinions out there?
>
> Zac
>
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