Jack Baty writes:
I keep preaching the benefits of Mozilla Firebird, and for good reasons. The trouble begins when I actually convince someone to try it. Great! Go to mozilla.org and, oh wait, can’t find a link there. Try the projects page. No link there either? Well there’s always Google.
How about mozillafirebird.org? That’s got to work right? Well it doesn’t. Or at least it didn’t until now. I registered mozillafirebird.org .net and .com not 5 minutes ago. I’ll create a nice page pointing to the Mozilla Firebird project page for those folks who try hitting the obvious domain. Should be available in a day or two.
Yes, I know that the roadmap says that the name Mozilla Firebird is temporary and will change right after Mozilla hits 1.4, but I’ll bet in the ensuing confusion folks call it “Mozilla Firebird” for at least another year or so.
He certainly has a point there. Mozilla Firebird is a bit hard to find for first-time visitors of mozilla.org. Blake thinks that the domain names should point to Mozilla Firebird Help. We'll see what happens.
Anyway, thanks for the domain names Jack!
Posted by djst at July 6, 2003 3:33 PMWeren't the -bird names destined to go away? This is gonna make those db folks oh-so-happy.
Just add a zilla to those domains, that'll get you another set of flamers (ok, just lawyers, but once you're fishing for compliments ... ;-)).
I should open a paypal account for folks with too much money.
Make quick links to Firebird and Thunderbird (and other popular mozilla related things) on the mozilla.org's main page. It can't be so hard to fix that.
Posted by: Henke at July 7, 2003 1:39 AM