Recently I made an offer of $100 for cound.com. I actually got a reply, telling 
me the minimum offer is 2000 euros. And they aren't likely to accept that 
either---more likely to hold out for a better offer.

My opinion is that owning csound.com would make very little difference with 
regard to web traffic, but it's just a nice feeling for the community to own its 
own name.

-Mike

Michael Mossey wrote:
> Recently I made an offer of $100 for cound.com. I actually got a reply, 
> telling me the minimum offer is 2000 euros. And they aren't likely to 
> accept that either---more likely to hold out for a better offer.

Yeah, they may have spent a recognizable portion of $100 already, just 
squatting.

> My opinion is that owning csound.com would make very little difference 
> with regard to web traffic, but it's just a nice feeling for the 
> community to own its own name.

Yeah, not a huge deal, but it would be nice.  I actually still think that
csound.org is more important anyway, as csound is not a commercial product.
Reminder to Dr. B to point csound.org to csounds.com.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:09 AM, Tobiah  wrote:
> Michael Mossey wrote:
>>
>> Recently I made an offer of $100 for cound.com. I actually got a reply,
>> telling me the minimum offer is 2000 euros. And they aren't likely to accept
>> that either---more likely to hold out for a better offer.
>
> Yeah, they may have spent a recognizable portion of $100 already, just
> squatting.

Let them continue spending.

>> My opinion is that owning csound.com would make very little difference
>> with regard to web traffic, but it's just a nice feeling for the community
>> to own its own name.
>
> Yeah, not a huge deal, but it would be nice.  I actually still think that
> csound.org is more important anyway, as csound is not a commercial product.
> Reminder to Dr. B to point csound.org to csounds.com.

Absolutely.  ardour.com doesn't appear to be linked to Ardour.  I
don't think going to csound.com will stop anyone from finding
csounds.com, especially since there are a couple links there to
csounds.com.
The ONLY way that squatter will make any return at all on the
csound.com domain is if the Csound community buys it from him; outside
of that, he loses money.  The inverse of a monopoly- only one
potential customer.  If the squatter doesn't like our terms, let them
throw money away.  He has two choices- offer a lower price or make no
profit- and somehow sees a nonexistent third choice.  Kind of funny.

-Chuckk


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