Quote from: 3Dfilament on May 21, 2013, 02:08:32 AM

Quote from: tacotime on May 20, 2013, 05:19:37 PM

Update:
We have a couple of domains now,
http://www.networkcoin.com/forum/
and
http://netcoin.io/forum/

NetworkCoin would be a really, really nice name for the coin, as good as, or better in many ways. Netcoin is still good, yes, that's awesome, but to match the coin to the name of the domain is very important.

In the real, brick and mortar world, if I said, "I'll give you dollarines for that", well sure, that's real close ... but marketing and branding really demand that if you CAN match the name of your DOMAIN to your, (product-coin), it's a very good thing. To compete in the SEO namespace of "network" would be very nice as well, a doable challenge.

Many people, when trading real value, and taking real risk, having to make a decision IF "netcoin"="networkcoin"="NTC" ... well why take that risk ... at all?

I agree with the points you make. The biggest challenge with a community-driven project like this is that people tend to drive a bunch of efforts in a bunch of different directions. That's both the beauty and curse of open projects. Although TacoTime and his development team will have full control over the quality of the code until it is open sourced for reasons of security as discussed in here, our job a a community around this idea is to create an ecosystem to support it. I think this is where it becomes challenging.

The point on the semantics of Netcoin you make is really important. I think the community has decided on Netcoin as a name, something about it resonates with people. I registered netcoin.io primarily out of urgency a little while ago after a conversation with TT about it as we thought it could be a good potential domain name for Netcoin. Unfortunately, netcoin.com is domain squatted and trying to buy it for thousands of dollars isn't really a good idea in my opinion. I think the .io domains have a nice ring to them. I do, however, want to declare that I registered netcoin.io with the intention of being open to anyone and everyone about it and working with anyone who approaches me to make it into something that suits people. I'll even point it elsewhere if required. I want the community to have a written record of that, in the interest of full disclosure and transparency.

The reason I put up a discussion space is because I wanted to experiment with a lighter type of forum to see if it works as a means to work on smaller project-based work for Netcoin, such as coming up with a few mock-ups to present to the community (probably in this thread) to vote on so we have a base for further design. I don't mind doing it over at platinumdigitalreserve.com/forum, but I find the theme really hard to work with over there. I've messaged the admin to try and work on a better theme but haven't heard anything yet. I want to keep pushing forward so I put one up for smaller-project based work as mentioned, as I'm active and intend to stay active on the community project side of things.

The next point I wanted to put forward is it would be really great if we could find out who registered netcointalk.org (05/05/13) and netcointalk.com (01/05/13). I presume both owners are members of this community, so I thought I'd ask to see if someone pops up because those would be great domains for a discussion forum.

Sorry for the long post! I think we have to put up for discussion whether we decide Networkcoin = Netcoin as I think we need to glue and stick with something. Obviously I'm biased towards Netcoin for the reasons listed above and the difference of semantics where net isn't network (although technically it is, but we don't say Internetwork). Anyway, having said that, said that, I am active and ready to develop/host anything people want to see. Just ask! And if something looks or sounds stupid, tell me that too! Cheesy