PLEASE READ - Domain Change

Ezio

Ezio

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So the evil of Brexit is finally upon us, and according to the email I received a little while ago from the EU domain registrar, from 1st January 2021 I will no longer be considered a valid holder for a .eu domain. Earlier this year I purchased a .uk domain in anticipation of this sad event, and the time has now come to migrate the board. Sometime on Saturday afternoon, I will close the site and migrate it to our new domain. The site may be down for a period of time, and you may get various strange errors trying to connect to it.

Our new URL will be:

https://gamingtavern.uk

The above link won't currently work as the SSL certificate is in the process of being provisioned, but should start to function sometime over the next couple of days.

The current .eu domain will remain in place for a while at least. I'm going to put a holding page up explaining the move and showing the new URL. I'm going to use a holding page rather than an automatic redirect so that anyone still using the old link gets a clear indication that the domain has changed and will be going away. I don't know what the EU domain registrars are going to do in January, but the domain registration expires in February, so the site will go away at that point if not before.

Assuming everything goes according to plan, there will be a holding page on this domain which will state that the migration has happened successfully, and the new site on the .uk domain will then be functional. If for any reason I have to delay things, this site will be reopened and I'll post a revised plan. If neither site is working, it means something horrible has happened and I'm working hard to fix it. Check back the next day, and in the meantime communicate among yourselves by carrier pigeon (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549).

As always, if anyone has any questions, please let me know.

 
Will the Discord server still be live?
 
Thank you for all your efforts keeping the site running all this time.

I never liked neither the UK Domain Registrars nor the European (.eu) ones for their policies of territorial exclusion.

The original proponents of popular internet domains in the U.S.A. avoided this territorial exclusion with the ubiquitous dot-com (.com), which is still open to everyone no matter how big or small or geographical location. Neither is the dot-org (.org) restrictive. It is the new fangled domains that are so restrictive.
 
negromaestro said:
I never liked neither the UK Domain Registrars nor the European (.eu) ones for their policies of territorial exclusion.

The original proponents of popular internet domains in the U.S.A. avoided this territorial exclusion with the ubiquitous dot-com (.com), which is still open to everyone no matter how big or small or geographical location. Neither is the dot-org (.org) restrictive. It is the new fangled domains that are so restrictive.
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That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the system. There are top-level domains, like .com and .earth; and there are country-specific ones, like .uk (leading to .co.uk etc) and, as it happens, .tv.

And they aren't the new-fangled ones. The actual new-fangled ones are things like .earth and .yoga, which are open to anyone (unless their registrar enforces theme appropriateness).

Also, .org has always been exclusively for non-profit organisations (though not enforced).
 
Tim Gray said:
That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the system. There are top-level domains, like .com and .earth; and there are country-specific ones, like .uk (leading to .co.uk etc) and, as it happens, .tv.

And they aren't the new-fangled ones. The actual new-fangled ones are things like .earth and .yoga, which are open to anyone (unless their registrar enforces theme appropriateness).

Also, .org has always been exclusively for non-profit organisations (though not enforced).
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Obviously, everybody knows anything that is not a dot-com is a new-fangled domain for people unfortunate not to get a dot-com.

Let us be honest, many of the popular brands just focus on dot-com for their primary domain.

BritishAirways has "BritishAirways. com" because why not? Why would they bother having a primary domain with "BritishAirways.co.uk" when they can get that prized dot-com.

The Clinton era dot-com bubble was not thst for nothing.

Because dot-com domains are not for those "gate keepers" who are concerned keeping folks out, like the dot-UK and dot-EU domain registrars do. Free range living is dot-com, a walled garden is a country specific domain.
 
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Hi Ezio, thanks for your time and work on this one in advance.

I pray to the Great Machine God that it goes smoothly, and some wonderful reward manifests through the Ether for you as a result :)
 
@Ezio - good luck, we'll be waiting on the other side. Thank you as ever.

This feels apt... we'll watch the AOS clock tomorrow.
 
Thanks @Ezio, you were always my ... crackle.. sputter, phut...
 
And we’re back. Thank you @Ezio
 
Thanks Ezio!
 
negromaestro said:
Because dot-com domains are not for those "gate keepers" who are concerned keeping folks out, like the dot-UK and dot-EU domain registrars do. Free range living is dot-com, a walled garden is a country specific domain.
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This is stirring yourself up for a problem that doesn't exist. The only 'freedom' that's restricted is to label your 'mydomainthing' as being where you are not rather than where you are.

Better not to turn it into a weird sub-thread, I suppose.
 
Let's not.
 
Tim Gray said:
This is stirring yourself up for a problem that doesn't exist. The only 'freedom' that's restricted is to label your 'mydomainthing' as being where you are not rather than where you are.

Better not to turn it into a weird sub-thread, I suppose.
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Quoting someone's comment on a thread means you expect a reply, right?

Well, Guvnor said "let's not" so this time, I will not. :-)
 
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