Domain name and donations

Post by **Alexander** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 2:59 pm

Gimp Mask wrote:cx is worth every penny though

Why is that? Why can you just have a geocities-adress or something ? Ha Ha !

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:44 pm

Let's get the new site running and I'll donate $123. Possibly more if the .net domain is ever for sale. You have my word on that.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 3:56 pm

DU says his code will be finished on March 16th. So the site will be 'running' completely then, apart from a redesign.

As for .net, it's due to expire in April, but if we got enough in donations I was planning to sign up to a site that lets you place a pre-order on the domain, and as soon as it comes free, it registers it for you. It looks like we could make the .cx three year target if the donations keep coming it, and with a bit extra, we could place the pre-order on .net as well (it's $15 to do that, but that includes domain registration for a year should the old host forget to renew as soon as it expires). So we'll see. Again, thanks to everyone who's donated so far.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:23 pm

You wish Bill Gates was part of this community.

Post by **Alexander** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:53 pm

Maybe he is.?

Trakocian · Post by **Trakocian** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:11 pm

Pitched in my share, I would give more, but noone wants to steal my identity.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:34 pm

Gimp Mask wrote:cx is worth every penny though

What, of fifty smackers? Jaysus.

Can you not plump for a new domain name with a cheaper suffix? www.hostway.com do domains for $6.95/year.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:35 pm

Stevie D wrote:
Gimp Mask wrote:cx is worth every penny though
What, of fifty smackers? Jaysus.

Can you not plump for a new domain name with a cheaper suffix? www.hostway.com do domains for $6.95/year.

Can you find one that works for duckandcover, though? .com, .org etc are all gone, .net we may be able to get if we have money left over from these donations, and .cx is the only obscure one I think works.

Stevie D · Post by **Stevie D** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:39 pm

Mr. Teatime wrote:
Stevie D wrote:
Gimp Mask wrote:cx is worth every penny though
What, of fifty smackers? Jaysus.

Can you not plump for a new domain name with a cheaper suffix? www.hostway.com do domains for $6.95/year.
Can you find one that works for duckandcover, though? .com, .org etc are all gone, .net we may be able to get if we have money left over from these donations, and .cx is the only obscure one I think works.

Point taken. But a cool $40-50 markup is too much of an arse-raping for a slightly more leet name, I think. Good luck in getting the funds together, but I can't help feeling that there's better things to spend it on. Especially when a cheaper name would just as easily save the site.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:44 pm

The other, cheaper names that are available are:
uckandcover.biz
duckandcover.ws
duckandcover.tv
duckandcover.cc

same for using duck-and-cover.

If we get .net, we'll probably switch to that because it's cheaper, but I really don't like those obscure names. Still, it is cheaper to use them... so we'll see. Does anyone like any of the above names? I don't

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:06 pm

Keep the .cx if you have enough money from the donations.

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:20 pm

We do have enough right now. We don't have enough for three years of .cx, but we have more than enough for one year of .cx. So depending on whether we get some more donations, I'll either renew .cx for a year and put in a bid for .net, or renew .cx for three years - or even better, get .cx for three years and put in a .net bid. So as I said, we'll see.

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:32 pm

It's best to keep the .cx, unless you can "promote" the site to .net, as planned. Going for the others (cc, ws, and so on) wouldn't be a good idea. I think you are going about it the right way.

Post by **Alexander** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:56 pm

Mr. Teatime wrote:The other, cheaper names that are available are:
uckandcover.biz
duckandcover.ws
duckandcover.tv
duckandcover.cc

There is also .info? is duckandcover.info taken?

pnutz · Post by **pnutz** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:13 am

yes

duckncover.org is not, though. That may be worse than a cx...

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:40 am

Tea, why don't you (or some other admin) make o poll about domain names? sth like:
"which _cheaper_than.cx_ domain name would you like:
-.biz
-.info
-.org
- none, and I don't give a fuck bout problems with making DAC endure cuased by insufficient funds"

I's personally accept any of these if it helps DAC running with no threats of being shut. But on the other hand we have our one and only MMRW who offered to pay the whole sum

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:24 pm

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:28 pm

I've taken this story down from the top story heading, but we still could use a few more donations, if anyone is thinking of it. We've got enough for .cx for one year + bidding on .net should it come free, but ideally I'd like to get .cx for longer so we don't have to go through this every year.
Anyway, thanks again community

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:40 am

Someone's already watching duckandcover.net and will be the first to get it. Probably a squatter. So it looks like we'll have to stick with .cx.

Fez · Post by **Fez** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:58 am

The squatters are idiots if they think someone is going to pay them the money they want. They are wasting their own money by doing so.