After some lenghty deliberation, I settled for the name “javia”.
I hope it sounds acceptable in English. The name may come from ‘java’ and ‘via’; anyway, it’s important to be nice-sounding, memorable, and short.
I would have liked to get the domain name in the .com TLD. Unfortunately, javia.com is not available, as it is owned by a domain-name pirate, boasting a ‘domain-for-sale’ note on the landing page.
A huge proportion of the domain names (I’d guess, as high as 80% in .com) is used for advertising and re-selling, and don’t represent legitimate uses associated with the respective name. I hate this state of affairs, and I consider that it represents a very serious problem. If the situation continues to aggravate, more and more domain names becoming un-available for the people who are willing to put on real websites, I expect this may even prompt an overhaul of the domain name system.
The domain-name pirates operate a huge number of domains. They get revenue through the advertising they put on the landing-pages on these domains, and by re-selling the demains for big-money. This is a dirty business; that’s why I won’t even consider buying a domain from such a pirate — because I don’t want to do anything to encourage their business.
I’m left with the choice between javia.org and javia.eu. The advantage of .eu is that it’s shorter than .org (and easier to type on a phone keyboard); the disadvantage of .eu is that it’s a new TLD, relativelly little known, and with a strong regional character (being a ‘country code’ TLD). But for me, the greatest disadvantage of .eu is that it is operated by a particularily incompetent registrar, Eurid. I think Eurid is a good exemple of the incompetence and beauraucracy characterizing the EU. They are even proud of their blunders (as in, “is not stupid enough, he who’s not proud of it”). The lamentable way in which they have run the .eu domain until now will have a lasting negative impact on this TLD. I guess I really hate them, and normally I wouldn’t want to use a domain in .eu. On the other side, .eu is shorter then .org…
For the sake of google keyword counts: “Eurid sucks”.
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