[Mplayer-dev-eng] domainname?

Felix Buenemann atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net
Wed May 30 20:36:05 CEST 2001


On Wednesday, 30. May 2001 20:17, you wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 07:45:11PM +0200, Bertrand BAUDET wrote:
> > The 'M' in mplayer is for what? Mpeg??
> > or can be Media to be more generic!
> >
> > So,
> > mediaplayer.net
> > mediaplayer.org
> > ??
>
> Both of those are registered in the WHOIS database, and with good reason:
> mediaplayer is the name of Microsoft's player. (Also, the executable
> is called mplayer.exe, last time I checked.  I nearly jumped seeing that,
> then realized what it was :)  Leave it to Microsoft to name their programs
> so generically.
>
> OTOH, both mpegplayer.net and .org are registered too :)
MPlayer afaik stands for The Linux Movie Player Project so ,pegplayer 
wouldn't make much sense.
>
> > I don't remember the web site to check the domain names, but
> > nslookup is unable to resolve those names...
>
> You don't need a "web site" to check domain names, just install the
> handy 'whois' program.
>
> > Bertrand
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > argh. mplayer.hu .net .org .com are already used ! :(((((((((((((
> > >
> > > So what should be our domain name?
> > >
> > > linuxmplayer.hu ?
> > > movieplayer.hu ?
> > > any better ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > > A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
> > >
> > > --
> > > mailto:arpi at thot.banki.hu
> > > http://esp-team.scene.hu
> > >
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-- 
Best Regards,
   Felix

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