At one time, I and some of my friends wanted to build an INFORMATICS PORTAL.
It was going to be a very innovative portal. Based on a 3-D browser, all users were to be provided with their “individual (and even three-dimensional) structured rummage table”. This “rummage table” was to be automatically fed by many sources (for example Heise.de or fefe.blog.de – just to name two of them) and chaired by us (a group of activists).
The 3D Browser software was developed by IF Lab (the InterFace AG IT young academics in the laboratory) and was the technological basis for the InterFace history wall we had generated for our 30-year jubilee. It was a great piece of software, but it was never used for anything else.
Naturally, if you want an informatics portal, you need an informatics domain. My first idea was informatik.de. However, the person who owned this domain wanted money to the tune of a six-digit number of Euros. Consequently, this was no longer an option.
Then I considered informatik.org. A good friend of mine who, like me, had been one of the chairmen of the GChACM (German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery) owned this domain, which he loaned the GChACM for its website. The German ACM chapter then (as I see it, illegally) confiscated this domain and was not prepared to return it to said friend of mine. Mind you, this happened regardless of the fact that the association now only uses it as an alias for germany.acm.org. To me, such behaviour looks a little shabby. Consequently, Informatik.org was also a no-go.
So I reserved a few informatics domains for the portal that sounded nice to me:
informatik.cc as 
in Cocos Islands on the Indian Ocean.
(http://informatik.cc)
“cc“ sounded nice to me, because we also have the famous dict.cc. Besides, “cc” reminds me of the good old Unix C compiler… From emails, everybody knows “cc”, too.
informatik.co as 
in Columbia South America
(http://informatik.co)
“co“ rather appealed to me, it sounds like informatics&co.
informatik.io as 
British Territory on the Indian Ocean.
(http://informatik.io)
Well, we all know the input/output problem, don’t we?
informatik.me as 
Montenegro, Europe
(http://informatik.me)
The English “me” sounds a little like “my” (informatics).
informatik.mu as 
Mauritius Africa
(http://informatik.mu)
This reminded me of the Bavarian Capital.
For several reasons, the dream of an informatics portal never became reality. But I still own all these domains, although I do not need them. Consequently, I would like to hand them on to an interested party.
The price is subject to negotiation and also depends on how I like the buyer. At the least, I would like to be reimbursed for what the domains cost me during the last few years.
If you are interested, just send me an email – an actual proposal is appreciated.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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