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We already own which is the registered address of the club, which then dns redirects to the hosting g3trf.weebly.com. g3trf has emails, they are just switched off as we've never used them.
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Maidstone Club is known as G3TRF not G3WM and has been since the early 1960's?
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We've been here before, and just gone round in circles, caused a major rift in the club last time.
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No one outsite Maidstone club knows the club as anything but G3TRF, the RSGB data base lists us a G3TRF, all the various internet lists of Clubs know us as G3TRF.
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RSGB Listing,?
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Maidstone Amateur Radio Society, G3TRF
0.2 miles away RSGB Region 10 Contact: Trevor Collins G6ALJ , g3trf@... trev@... ?
The club website is www.g3trf.co.uk which is a DNS redirect for the hosting which is g3trf.weebly.com, the publicly searchable address is g3trf.co.uk. when your on the website you see the hosting address in your top bar, don't worry about this, if someone is looking for the site just search G3TRF in google.
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Don't reinvent the wheel it took ages to get g3trf in the search engines and various lists.
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If you want the website to do various things ask. It's sat without much input because no-ones given me any.?
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Hope money has not been wasted registering domains we have no need to register.
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If you want personlised email address's will take me a evening to do, just give me details and who to redirect to, You want stuff on the website, tell me.
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Ian
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Sent:?Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 11:58 PM
From:?"Denis Ovsienko" <denis@...> To:?g3trf <g3trf@groups.io> Subject:?[g3trf] DNS domains for Maidstone ARS 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. -- Denis Ovsienko ? |
