Greetings to fellow club members.
Recently I had one discussion at Lashings, and then another at the Faversham shack, and the interim result of that is that I have registered the following DNS domains:
* g3wm.org.uk
* g3wm.uk
* g3trf.org.uk
* g3trf.uk
The proposed end goal of this is to improve the perception of the club's Internet face, specifically, to have the web-site sitting at an address that looks logical to people in the UK and abroad (likely one of the domains above, as far as it makes sense to me), and also to have proper club function e-mails (chairman@, treasurer@, secretary@, info@ in particular).
The latter will allow to set up a PayPal account for the treasurer, such that yearly subscription fees can be made as PayPal payments (with a recurring yearly option should the member want it). In this case it is important to have a set of proper looking e-mails such that the members and prospects see that their payment is going to the club account. Also this will provide means to reduce cash handling.
Initially in my mind I had g3wm.uk as the best choice (if you have a more attractive callsign, why not make it work for you), but Ian defends the choice of G3TRF as the callsign currently registered at RSGB. This needs to be considered carefully.
Whatever is the final choice of the club, it needs to be made and accepted, and it needs to be one main domain to stick with for coming years. Then I will be happy to transfer the domain of choice from my personal account to a club official and/or to setup the e-mails (this can be completely done in one day, if somebody else is willing to do this, that's fine with me). The rest of domains can lapse.
Feedback is welcome, but I sincerely hope this will not incur a year-long debate.
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Denis Ovsienko
