Hi Tanguy,
* Tanguy Ortolo tanguy+fsfe@ortolo.eu [2012-01-05 09:33:08 +0000]:
I have seen two domain names in use by the FSFE: <fsfe.org> and <fsfeurope.org>. I guess that would be a kind of historic legacy, but I think it weakens the image of FSFE somehow, because even though these domain names may be used in some interchangeable way, people cannot help from hesitating, not knowing if this is FSFE http://www.fsfe.org/ or FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/. This goes for the Web site, but also for any other service: mailing-lists, Jabber or whatever.
I agree that this is confusing. I suggested in the past to get switch with all e-mail, mailinglists, jabber to fsfe.org, and not use fsfeurope.org any more. If and how to do this exactely should be implemented is currently discussed by our European core team (team@fsfeurope.org). As everybody you are welcome to send your position on this to them, or even better, send a summary of the outcome from this dicsussion to the list.
Has one of these domain names been chosen eventually? And do you think not that it would be advisable to actively retire the other one?
For the background: fsfeurope.org was used at the beginning. Than we registered fsfe.org. We used that as a short sexy domain for the Fellowship, when we started it in 2004. Than we changed our outside communication from "FSF Europe" to FSFE. Than people got confused, because they expect that fsfe.org is the website of FSFE, not just of the Fellowship. So we changed that and made fsfe.org the main website. But e-mail, jabber, mailing lists were not changed.
I hope you understand it a bit better now.
Regards, Matthias