- From: Ric Johnson <ric@opendomain.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:20:08 -0400
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Jen Simmons <jen@jensimmons.com>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
I will be coming to the W3C20 Anniversary Symposium if anyone wants to meetup to discuss the webplatform. Or please feel free to contact me for any questions about OpenDomain Ric Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > > Oops, I sent this to the wrong email address for Ric! His long-term email address is ric@opendomain.org. > > Thanks again, Ric! > > Regards- > -Doug > >> On 9/22/14 6:20 PM, Jen Simmons wrote: >> I'm glad to see that this has been worked out. Thanks Ric. >> >> Jen >> >> Jen Simmons >> designer, consultant and speaker >> host of The Web Ahead >> jensimmons.com <http://jensimmons.com> >> 5by5.tv/webahead <http://5by5.tv/webahead> >> twitter: jensimmons <http://twitter.com/jensimmons> >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: >> >> Hi, folks– >> >> I'm very pleased to announce that Ric Johnson of OpenDomain has >> generously donated the WebPlatform.com domain to our project! >> >> With Ric's help and patience, we transferred the domain registration >> to W3C this weekend. >> >> For now, we've put up a splash page [1], that provides a link to >> WebPlatform.org, with a link and special thanks to OpenDomain.org. >> (It may take a while for the DNS to get set up and propagate properly.) >> >> Ric would like the community to consider how best to use this domain >> name. He suggests something commercial, to complement our open site, >> but he emphasized that the final usage is up to us in the community. >> He would like it to be something unique, not merely a redirect to >> WebPlatform.org. >> >> I invite the community to discuss how we can use WebPlatform.com to >> make our project better. >> >> Thanks again to Ric and OpenDomain for providing this domain name! >> Even in these days of dozens (or hundreds?) of top-level domains, >> having the *.com domain is significant, and helps us protect our >> unique community identity. >> >> [1] http://webplatform.com/ >> >> Regards- >> -Doug >> >>
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