[SLL] GoDaddy Redux

[Steve Herber]

I spent a few minutes looking at ar.com.  The last Source Fund award
was given in 2002.  It seems like a good idea, but the site looks dead.
Does anyone have any information about their current status?

Steve Herber	herber at thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Russell Evans wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:57:30 -0800
> "Bill Thompson" <Billt at mahagonny.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like NameCheap is a Enom reseller. Enom has a reputation of
>> hijacking domains and has suspended sites in the same manner that
>> GoDaddy is now accused of, so it may not be much better.
>>
>> Are there any registrars in the world that are NOT evil?? I'm still
>> looking.....
>
>
> I don't know but at least there is one that supports OSS.
> http://www.ar.com/sourceFund/index.jsp
> Alice's Registry is committed to fostering the development of
> opensource software. We reserve a portion of each domain registration,
> transfer and renewal to be gifted to developers of interesting
> opensource software development projects.
>
> We use a lot of Open Source developed applications in our operations
> and believe strongly in the development of freely available software.
>
> We will be posting a methodology for how we go about identifying and
> funding projects. Our initial criteria for identifying potential
> projects are:
>
>    * The project should nothave a current corporate sponsor.
>    * The project MUST have a stable version.
>    * The project MUST have freely available source
>    * The project MUST have a BSD/Apache/GPL style license.
>    * The projects deliverable is generally beneficial to the net. for
> example we wouldn't fund a project that develops software to create
> DDoS attacks or better SPAM/UCE delivery software.
>
> Our initial grants will be in the $500 to $5,000 range. Initially we
> will be reserving $1 for each year a domain is registered, transferred,
> or renewed with us. We expect to raise the amount reserve as our
> business grows.
>
>