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Domain Business

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:48 am
by King
After extensively evaluating options for GiantsWD, here's the current situation:

1) The domain, GiantsWD.com, will not be available due to ownership issues for at least 2 months.
2) Many sites currently link to GiantsWD.com (just Google 'giantswd') and may replace their links within this two month window.
3) I'm currently considering purchasing a different domain name than giantswd.com, including:

giantswd.org, giantswd.net or somethingelse.com

Given the situation, what do you feel is best for GiantsWD? Should we wait the 2 months for the domain name to become available or go ahead and associate with a completely new one? Please justify your answer.

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 3:21 am
by [NEO]Vortex
I think it would be best to wait, use a free redirection page for now? (I believe zop knows of one, I don't...)


Lots of new players go to giantswd.com simply because they see "GiantsWD.com Dedicated" in the server list. "http://s88894241.onlinehome.us Dedicated" isn't quite as impressive. Simple solution, right? Get another domain, like GiantsWD.net
That also brings up another problem. I've had a lot of people asking me if I knew why the giantswd site was down, I had to direct them to the correct url. They didn't think to google it, and perhaps those who don't visit very often or old players looking to start playing again wouldn't either. They might end up thinking giantswd is gone, possibly losing players... although they might go in GSA to see if anyone's there too, I guess.

dunno

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:47 pm
by Zopharks
You can get .tk domains for free, but they place an ad thinger on the pages the direct to.... I think you could also use no-ip.org, which doesn't have ads if I remember correctly.

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:15 pm
by Nullpointer
Should we wait the 2 months for the domain name to become available
Is it guaranteed that no one takes it before you do?

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:00 pm
by STEELIX
Not to sound an arse, but how many sites by the name of giantswd do you know?

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:51 pm
by King
No guarantee that a 3rd party won't snatch it up. However, this isn't a business and I would not be willing to pay extra from the 3rd party.

Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:20 pm
by Zopharks
STEELIX wrote:Not to sound an arse, but how many sites by the name of giantswd do you know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hijacking

Try going to www.giantshell.com - Instead of our beloved giants hell, you get a generic page with nothing to do with Giants. Now try going to Tam's old site - www.tam79.com, again nothing to do with Giants. What happened? They decided to stop renewing their domain registration(s) which allowed other, less than friendly people to obtain them.

Why would they do this? Take another look at www.giantshell.com, specifically at the upper right hand corner: "Inquire about this domain." clicking this link brings you to a page in which you are given the option of bidding for ownership of the domain. In addition, clicking any of the categories on the main page will bring you to a new page with what I'm guesing to be sponsored links.

It is very possible that the same thing could happen to GiantsWD.com, should the domain become open again.

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:05 pm
by STEELIX
I see. Well, I just thought giantswd wasn't important enough to be worth hijacking, really.

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:55 pm
by RichardMH
www.b-one.net have sites really cheap..
currently im only using 500mb and I pay alittle over 300 SEK for that (once a year). I think a currency site told me 300 is around 37 dollars..
You can also choose 1gb and 2gb for size but I dont know how the price will change and how much it will be. 37 dollars once a year shouldnt be a problem.. and 1gb seem to have alittle over the double price of that..

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:53 pm
by Nullpointer
... They decided to stop renewing their domain registration(s) which allowed other, less than friendly people to obtain them ...
The same thing happened to www.PlanetCitizenKabuto.com ; after release domain grabbers obtained that domain (probably due to the term "citizen").

Well, as you can see now, fortunately that site did not yield any revenue for them so the domain is available again.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:48 pm
by RichardMH
whats wrong with naming it with citizen?

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:34 am
by Zopharks
RichardMH wrote:whats wrong with naming it with citizen?
Nothing. What gave you the idea that there was something wrong with that? :P

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:03 pm
by SSJBardock
I don't get logged in automatically when accessing GWD through giantswd.org, while it works fine when accessing it through www.giantswd.com or http://s88894241.onlinehome.us/

Anybody else experiencing this problem?

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:11 pm
by CellularAscension
Ya

Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:18 pm
by Glude
yeah me too