Re: Sunsite's Policy On Domain Names

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

[Sorry for the long delay. I had a terrible weekend :(  ]

Esben Haabendal Soerensen wrote:

>Esben> are very clear: we do not accept domain hosting, and to make this

>Paul> Does anyone have a problem with www.lgdc.org being just a redirect?
>
>Christian> Well, yes. I very much prefer having it as mirror of
>Christian> sunsite.auc.dk/lgdc/, as that allows visitors to stay at
>Christian> the same domain when they follow (most) internal links.  A
>Christian> simple redirect is IMHO confusing.

>The only exposure we give ourselves is our hostname,
>"sunsite.auc.dk", which hopefully also redirects some exposure to our
>list of sponsors, encouraging more donations to us :-)
>
>Our honest opinion is therefore that if we give up the exposure of our
>hostname for the projects we could just as well close up, and find
>something else to spend our free time on.

That's a very good point, yes.

>But if you prefer to move from SunSITE to some other webhosting, which
>will host you as www.lgdc.org (and probably require you to splash adds
>all over your site...) please let us know.

I want to stay with sunsite. period.

I'll do some thinking tomorrow about how we can best resolve this, and
contact you again. After I got some sleep ;)


	Christian
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