[imc-scotland-discussion] domain name

[Tom]

chris wrote:
> For me, the biggest issue would be maintaining the integrity of links, both
> inside and out of the site, to the articles and media on the site.

Preserving old URLs shouldn't be an issue. Since indymedia have not
updated the DNS yet (to point scotland.indymedia.org at the new server),
there is a webserver-level redirect from the old server to the
newserver. Back in april 2008 the old dadaimc database was imported and
part of the import procedure was to preserve old article urls. So, take
this very old link to one of our articles from city strolls in 2006:

http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/otherpress/display/643/index.php

Happily you still get to the right article.


Regarding changing domain name, I can think of these things in favour of
doing it:

- Direct control over our own DNS (we can change servers without waiting
for indymedia.org people to do stuff).

- Control over making email addresses @indymediascotland.org

- No easy mis-spellings of domain name that take you to weird places
(scotland.indymedia.org.uk goes to something horrible). Of course, we
should press the UK people to redirect scotland.indymedia.org.uk
directly to our site.

- As jon said, indymediascotland.org is in human word order not machine
word order.


-- 
Tom