Should we create draughtboard.org domain?

Draught Board Member Forum: Should we create draughtboard.org domain?
As Webmaster, I currently have the resources to create and maintain a seperate domain for the Draught Board. There are several advantages to doing this. I'll enumerate:

1. The new web page is hosted by me, not by a third entity (my ISP). This allows us to more flexibility to do things like give the members direct access to the pages, run scripts in the background, setup email forwards, etc.

2. Its easier to remember the path to the webpage. The new site would be accessed by typing: www.draughtboard.org

3. Prices for domain names just fell to $35 a year from $50. The initial sign up is $70 for two.

On the counter argument:

1) It still costs money.
2) My conection to the net is limited to 384K instead of multiple T1 or better lines now.
3) It ain't borken now so why fix it.


Thor
By Charles Webster (Cwebster) on Friday, March 19, 1999 - 06:23 pm:

I don't think it's a particularly bad idea. It gains us some prestige (having our own domain name), but it locks Thor into being the webmaster forever? Once we have the domain name, anyone can host it, but that typically costs ~$50/month.

By Thor (Qkuporr) on Monday, March 22, 1999 - 09:27 am:

I don't follow how setting up a domain name makes me webmaster in perpetua. Once we set up the domain, we can always move the site to another ISP. As far as the costs go, I'm sure with all the computr and technical jobs the club members have, there got to be a paid for site to sit it on without club expense.

Getting back to the main discussion though, it might not be worth the bother of setting up a new domain and all. The web site is working now and there's no direct evidence that the domain name will bring any real benefits to increasing membership.

THOR

By Ken Koupal (Koupal) on Sunday, March 5, 2000 - 08:39 pm:

I checked what's available and here's the list to date:
draughtboard.to
draughtboard.org
draughtboard.net
draughtboard.com

.org is for non-profit organizations, and as far as I can tell, we're non-profit. Oh wait, BABO - we provide service for a price ... maybe we should be .com ? Dot confusion ...

I would like to increase the access speed, and having our own domain name is cool, but $35/year doesn't seem worth it. How many hits do we get now? How many more hits if we were draughtboard-dot-whatever? Is this just prestige? Efficiency? Membership generating? Is our web host kicking us out? It seems to me that this move is entirely discretionary. I'll have to agree, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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