As most of you are aware, GWOnline's domain changed from http://www.gwonline.net to http://guildwars.incgamers.com a while ago, as part of the effort to better reflect the fact that IncGamers is a network. The GWOnline.net domain was discontinued earlier today, and thus will provide a redirect page to any using it.
Some links around the site may have been missed for updating when the domain was originally changed, so some may give you the redirect page - please simply correct the URL yourself in your browser, and bring the link to our attention for correction in the Forum Support forum. Thank you for your patience.|||I think this change exemplifies the problem of naming a particular site after the domain it's hosted on.|||as i perfectly understands the situation this site is in, i know you'd want to rename the site to the network.
but i cant help finding the new url alot more annoying to type in a browser :p|||The old name was easier to find, especially for the trading site.
traders.gwonline.net much easier to get to and remember than guildwars.incgamers.com/trading or whatever it is.
Thumbs down on the name change imho. Should at least have an active redirect.|||Quote:
As most of you are aware, GWOnline's domain changed from http://www.gwonline.net to http://guildwars.incgamers.com a while ago, as part of the effort to better reflect the fact that IncGamers is a network. The GWOnline.net domain was discontinued earlier today, and thus will provide a redirect page to any using it.
Some links around the site may have been missed for updating when the domain was originally changed, so some may give you the redirect page - please simply correct the URL yourself in your browser, and bring the link to our attention for correction in the Forum Support forum. Thank you for your patience.
For starters, the Left-hand side Column still has "GWOnline.net" which then takes you to the redirect page. Probably should be changed to point to guildwars.incgamers.com. But what are you going to rename it to? Also, "Contact Us" has an email at gwonline.net - you shouldn't update your web address without updating your email addresses so this should change too.
Cheers,
CM|||All the forum links at the top of the main page (the trading and forum hot-links) are directed to the old addies.|||Got to agree with truemyths, the new domain is just annoying to have to type in or find and would rather that the admins had just kept the old name. I don't understand why only this site on the incgamers network is the only one that is being changed, none of the other sites like World of War or D2 has been changed.
Is there a specific reason for it?
At the moment I'm assuming you're ditching the domain name as the expiration is the start of may, are the other sites going to have their domains ditched too?
Just to point out: On the main page (http://incgamers.com/) GWonlines' link points to the old domain and Hellgates' domain is using the GWonline.net redirect page.|||All sites are changing, 3 sites have already changed, Hellgate, GW and Mythos. The other 2 are much larger sites to deal with and we are waiting for new servers to be installed before we switch.
Why are we doing this? It's simple. To better sell our ad inventory direct we need to have quantifiable figures and the best way to do that is placing everything on the one domain as it's easier for our agencies to sell. Without the ads there would be no site so the harsh reality of economics kicks in.
The site has been on redirects for nearly 2 months, most of you have probably not even noticed. The auto-redirect has now been removed becuase we need to get people to actually start using the new domain and not the old :)
I hope this all makes sense.
Quote:
Got to agree with truemyths, the new domain is just annoying to have to type in or find and would rather that the admins had just kept the old name. I don't understand why only this site on the incgamers network is the only one that is being changed, none of the other sites like World of War or D2 has been changed.
Is there a specific reason for it?
At the moment I'm assuming you're ditching the domain name as the expiration is the start of may, are the other sites going to have their domains ditched too?
Just to point out: On the main page (http://incgamers.com/) GWonlines' link points to the old domain and Hellgates' domain is using the GWonline.net redirect page.|||Really dumb that it still doesn't still forward automatically to incgamers.
|||Quote:
All sites are changing, 3 sites have already changed, Hellgate, GW and Mythos. The other 2 are much larger sites to deal with and we are waiting for new servers to be installed before we switch.
Why are we doing this? It's simple. To better sell our ad inventory direct we need to have quantifiable figures and the best way to do that is placing everything on the one domain as it's easier for our agencies to sell. Without the ads there would be no site so the harsh reality of economics kicks in.
The site has been on redirects for nearly 2 months, most of you have probably not even noticed. The auto-redirect has now been removed becuase we need to get people to actually start using the new domain and not the old :)
I hope this all makes sense.
So basically screw your ease of use...we want ad money
thanks a lot...maybe I'll go to guru...
gwonline.net is something a lot of people are used to...and oh that's right...those people are your customers...you don't get money unless we click on ads or sign up for your subscriptions (maybe you get money simply for views and that's the reason for the change...but whatever). Guess I won't be doing either of those to protest the change.
No comments:
Post a Comment