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Domain name ideas (poll)
By: MightyFool Date: June 30, 2020, 1:07 pm
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Hi everyone,
To boost the visibility of this forum I was thinking of
registering a domain name so we lose the .createaforum part.
Unfortunately most of the obvious choices like
classicaltheism.com, classicaltheismforum.com etc. are already
in use.
Please vote in the poll above or add your suggestion in this
thread!
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: Mackie Messer Date: July 1, 2020, 1:03 am
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I'm pretty sure Brian, one of the other moderators here, owns
classicaltheismforum.com. It's the domain name we used for the
vBulletin forum. It might be worth asking him about it.
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: MightyFool Date: July 1, 2020, 2:12 am
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That would be great. I'll email him.
Update: The domain was expired and is now being domain squatted
by some vendor who wants $300 for it.
So unless we pay 300 bucks, we have to choose an alternative.
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: Ouros Date: July 2, 2020, 5:38 am
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Can't you try to negociate? Just tell him that you'll only take
it at 30$, and that he should be happy that anyone want to buy
it.
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: MightyFool Date: July 2, 2020, 5:47 am
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It's not Brian who sells the domain, it's a separate company.
What happens is when a popular domain name expires, is that it's
up for grabs for anyone. Domain-squat companies scan popular
expired domains to buy them and then resell them for a higher
price. Unfortunately, that's a legal practice and can only be
disputed if your copyright gets infringed (for example the
mcdonalds.com domain name expires and gets bought, they can
dispute that because mcDonalds is a registered brand name).
If you go to
HTML http://www.classicaltheismforum.com/
and then click
on 'Buy this domain' at the top, you can see the price they
request.
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: Mackie Messer Date: July 2, 2020, 2:24 pm
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I think Ouros meant contact the squatter. (Honestly, I'm not
sure the domain name is even worth $30. classicaltheismforum.org
would likely serve just as well.)
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: MightyFool Date: July 2, 2020, 3:38 pm
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I don't think you can negotiate. They don't even have an email
option and I'm not comfortable calling them since they're in
another country.
I'll add it to the list.
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: Mackie Messer Date: July 4, 2020, 10:27 pm
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Have you considered rebranding as a scholastic, or scholastic
and patristic forum? I've long disliked the rather bland theme
of "classical theism".
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: MightyFool Date: July 7, 2020, 10:09 am
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That goes into a deeper question on what would be the purpose of
this forum. It seems to me that we're discussing Theism mostly
from a Christian perspective, philosophy, and scripture.
Is the therm 'Scholastic' covering all that? Also, why do you
think 'classical theism' is too bland?
We can also remove 'Classical' from the name and get the domain
theismforum.com (which is still available).
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Re: Domain name ideas
By: Mackie Messer Date: July 7, 2020, 11:55 am
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Well, what you do is up to you. I'm inactive and "retired". But
I always felt that "classical theism" was both too specific and
too broad. It's too specific because almost nobody outside of
certain relatively small philosophical circles and parts of
analytic philosophy of religion even know what it means. So,
nobody knows to look for it. It's too broad because it doesn't
really give people much to identify with, and marketing for
groups like this is often a matter of identifying a niche
(which, preferably, lacks much competition) and focusing on it.
(When I called it "bland", I was referring to the "too broad"
part of this.)
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