PyKata domain name

[David MacQuigg]

PyKata is available in all flavors (.com, .org, .net, .info, etc.)
.org seems more logical (a non-profit organization), but .com is more
likely to be remembered. JavaBat uses .com.

I'm inclined to go with .com. Any preferences?

[Jeff Elkner]

+1 for .org

jeff

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[Andre Roberge]

If possible, I'd try to have both .org and .com

Why you ask:  have a look python dot com ... I think we'd want to avoid something like that happening...

[Athar Hameed اطهر حمید‎]

I second Andre's suggestion.

[Andrew Harrington]

+1
I would not worry about the lesser suffixes, but .org makes sense for the main one, and .com for protection.
Andy

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[Jeff Elkner]

Actually, .net is good to have too.

jeff

[Richard Guenther]

I vote for com and org for sure, but having more might be a good idea.  Our school did a similar approach, getting both shsfalcons.com and shsfalcons.org.

Richard

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jeff Elkner <je...@elkner.net> wrote:

Actually, .net is good to have too.

 

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[David MacQuigg]

OK, I've registered both pykata.org and pykata.com. I've forwarded
pykata.org to pykata.appspot.com and left pykata.com parked with our
registrar, Domains Made Easy. The parked domain appears with a bunch of
ads related to Karate, but at least it isn't porn.

[Athar Hameed اطهر حمید‎]

Sweet. Can't we forward pykata.com to pykata.org?

[David MacQuigg]

Athar Hameed wrote:
> Sweet. Can't we forward pykata.com <http://pykata.com> to pykata.org
> <http://pykata.org>?

Done. The only problem is we aren't giving a clear indication that
pykata.org is the correct name. Maybe later I will add a special page
for that re-direct, so anyone visiting pykata.com will read a short
message and click a link to get to pykata.org.

[David MacQuigg]

I've encountered one other problem with our domain names (see issue 6
in our bug tracker http://code.google.com/p/pykata/issues/list). Our
registrar Domains Made Easy offered a nice option to forward our
domains with "masking", which means that the user sees "pykata.org" in
the browser address bar, but the content is actually from
pykata.appspot.com. This masking caused a problem. Users could no
longer log in!!

I've removed the masking feature, so now when you go to either
pykata.org or pykata.com, you see in the address bar
pykata.appspot.com. I don't know if it is possible to have both our
preferred name in the address bar and no problem with logins. If
someone would like to explore that possibility, I'll leave issue 6
open.

Many thanks to one of our students, John Hergenroeder, for figuring
this out.

[Abhishek Anand]

I think simply forwarding pykata.org to the GAE app may not be a good
choice ( for purely cosmetic reasons only :) )

Here is what I did last year
1. I created a GAE app ( http://bit-proxy.appspot.com ),
2. I went to a free subdomain provider( http://co.cc) and procured a
name bitproxy.(in pyKata case this was paid and was Domains Made Easy)
3. I signed into Google apps with my domain (bitproxy.co.cc).
4. In the app engine application settings, I entered the domain name
in Add Domain section. (GAE will guide you from now)
5. Now in co.cc I created a CNAME record with host www.bitproxy.co.cc
and value set to ghs.google.com.

Its working fine (check http://www.bitproxy.co.cc ) but since its a
free service Iit does not provide mapping naked domain( http://bitproxy.co.cc)
to the GAE app and thus the naked domain shows a co.cc page with a
link to the www CNAME record. I think in pyKata's case this may not be
a problem. I hope this works for pyKata.

Abhishek Anand

On Apr 3, 9:23 pm, David MacQuigg <macqu...@box67.com> wrote:
> I've encountered one other problem with our domain names (see issue 6

> in our bug trackerhttp://code.google.com/p/pykata/issues/list).  Our

[David MacQuigg]

OK, I've created a CNAME record:

www.pkyata.org. 3600 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

I've also added pykata.org to the domains in GAE application settings
for pykata.

Now when I go to http://www.pykata.org, I get an error from Google - the
requested URL was not found on this server. Google's setup was a bit
confusing, so I may have to review that when I get more time.

-- Dave