Renaming openSUSE

Posted Jun 7, 2019 19:13 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152)
Parent article: Renaming openSUSE

Perhaps go the megalomaniac route and name is just "oS". Not Google friendly but...

Renaming openSUSE

Posted Jun 8, 2019 10:09 UTC (Sat) by jimbo (subscriber, #6689) [Link] (3 responses)

... for true megalomania, why not reserve the .OS top-level domain - apparently not taken according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_...) and then set up your DNS to include some "interesting" CNAMEs

the.os
rules.os
os.os
opensuse.os
best-ever.os

Have a great W/E
--
J

Renaming openSUSE

Posted Jun 8, 2019 10:44 UTC (Sat) by karkhaz (subscriber, #99844) [Link]

You might instead use existing TLDs. ubuntu.rehab is going for cheap, as is archlinux.rocks.

If your pockets are deep and you feel nostalgic for Apple's big cat naming scheme, you could register mac.os.horse.

Renaming openSUSE

Posted Jun 13, 2019 16:47 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644) [Link] (1 responses)

Two letter TLDs are reserved for ISO 3166 country codes.

You'll need to create your own country, give it a name where "OS" would be a reasonable abbreviative country code, and apply to ISO to get it recognised/registered. IANA will then contact you (or an appropriate government representative) to arrange for its administration.

Renaming openSUSE

Posted Jun 13, 2019 18:00 UTC (Thu) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

Apparently there was a surprisingly successful Republic of Ossola in northern Italy, which survived for 43 days during WW2 (https://www.visitossola.it/en/poi/partisan-republic-of-os...). Perhaps you could go there and stoke a new independence movement, and once it succeeds and secedes and receives international recognition you could use its .os TLD.