[SAC] osgeo.net dns entries

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jason Birch wrote:
> You're right Daniel, it's not generally a good thing.
> 
> Could we not just park the other domains?  Is losing the wildcard DNS an
> option yet?

Jason / Daniel,

A redirect would be fine with me, though I'm too clueless to implement
that.

I'm agast at the idea of just parking the domains.  My other complaint,
not yet raised, is that osgeo.com goes to a parking site instead of
redirecting to osgeo.org.

In the interest of ensuring this idea isn't lost I've filed it as a
ticket.

   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/162

Best regards,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:sac-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 07:55
> To: System Administration Committee Discussion/OSGeo
> Subject: Re: [SAC] osgeo.net dns entries
> 
> I would recommend a HTTP redirect from http://www.osgeo.net/ to
> http://www.osgeo.org/ instead of an alias, this is so that osgeo.org
> remains the only authoritative domain for OSGeo sites and you don't end
> up with multiple URLs (under multiple domains) pointing to the same
> stuff... I'm no expert in search engine ranking, but I'm sure this has
> to be better somehow for our ranking in search results, etc. ... and
> that also keeps the door open for using osgeo.net or osgeo.com for other
> aspects of OSGeo someday.



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