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Oobles · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject: psxdev.net

Anyone reading the news would have seen that we now have a whole heap of domains all redirecting to ps2dev.org. This is all because Sony are expanding their gaming goods. The PSP and what is expected to be the PS3 have been added to the mix. Just for good measure I've picked up psxdev.net.

So the question is should we move everything to psxdev.net and give up the old ps2dev domain. The ps2dev.org domain has been running since March 2003. Is it time to switch?

Guest · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject:

Anyhow, as long as you leave a spot for PSX (the pvr, not the ps1) development on the site, doesn't matter either way too me ;)

boomint · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 80 Location: Sheffield, UK

Is it just a case of creating one top level domain and have all the others redirected to relevant sections? Ie psxdev.* is top of the umbrella?

ps2dev.org would still be in the same place (technically) and the other sections could be added as and when they are released/implemented.

Or would it all be:

psp.psxdev.net
ps2.psxdev.net
psx.psxdev.net

???
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Guest · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:13 am Post subject:

I like it!

J.F. · Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 2906

Taking action now may save you trouble later. If you switch soon and get people used to going to the new address, you'll have less trouble than if you wait and Sony tries to TAKE ps2dev.org from you. Big companies have gone on a rampage, gathering any domain name even remotely close to what they think is theirs by right of some product.

ooPo · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

If they wanted ps2dev.org, they would have taken it by now.

Or at least tried.

As for this domain nonsense, I'm all for a central domain... but I don't think we should call is psxdev or something like that. It should be a more generic name, like sonydev or something a little less crappy than that. :)

Or, we could use a name we make up or steal, like the name those crazy [WD] or [NpM] folk use. They'd have even less chance to take a name away than Sony. I don't imagine they even have lawyers at all. :)

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hiryu · Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

I vote for psdev.org or psdev.net (without the X)
(if either are available, I havent checked)

and assorted subdomains ...

ps2.psdev.net
psx.psdev.net
psp.psdev.net
ps3.psdev.net

etc etc yada yada yada

blackdroid · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 564 Location: Sweden

thats the problem psdev.org is already taken.
dev.ps is not though..

psp.dev.ps
ps2.dev.ps

etc.. not the prettiest I agree, but another quarter thrown in for the sake of it :)
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pixel · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 791

I don't know what to vote either tbh. I like the idea of a generic domain with subdomains, but I also like the idea of registering lots of other small domains redirecting... Whatever :)

About consoledev.com, it's taken by some generic scamer/domain holder. It's not impossible to take it, but it may cost a bit. About consoledev.net, it seems to have been registered by some idle guy. Buying it back from him shouldn't be too difficult. And consoledev.org seems to have been just taken by some french paki right now... huh... :P

Oobles: do you still have some domains you like to register ?
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Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

I refuse to vote as I think a new centralized domain might be a good idea, but I hate the idea of psxdev.net ...

IMO if we are going to go to a generic name, we shouldn't limit it to just sony devices, despite the fact thats all we really do... Ok, I take that back, we mostly just troll so I guess it doesn't matter no matter what.
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Guest · Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 11:45 pm Post subject:

Still my favorite suggestion from IRC is using a "trolldev.net" parent domain.

I.e.

ps2.trolldev.net
psp.trolldev.net
psx.trolldev.net
ps3.trolldev.net
ps1.trolldev.net

:)

Saotome · Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 182

i voted "no" in the poll, to not switch the domain, but thats a good one gorim
i like it ;D
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Neovanglist · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 9:32 am Post subject:

Voted trolldev.net!
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evilo · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 230

Voted !

for www.psxdev.net and all subdomains :
ps2.psxdev.net
psx.psxdev.net
psp.psxdev.net
ps3.psxdev.net

What will become the old one (ps2dev.net) ? just disapear ? will it automatically redirect to the new address (at least for a short time period) ?

ooPo · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:54 pm Post subject:

All the old domains would (should!) point to the agreed-upon final domain on a permanent basis.

I still don't like the psxdev name, though... there has to be something better.

evilo · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 230

and why not just a simple psdev.net ?

boomint · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 80 Location: Sheffield, UK

psdev.net is already taken. :(

Am warming to trolldev.net though!
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ooPo · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:44 am Post subject:

Because psdev is also a boring name. :)

Next!

pixel · Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 791

consoledev!
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Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

trollandnotdev.net
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DiGiTaLeX · Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 12

I think you should just redirct it to here.. add another one to the pile, And on the main page you have news, and on the nav bar, you have links to the relivent sections...

No need to make things more complicated