Sometime more than a decade ago, I registered the dixonary.net domain through Google and we had a nice-ish website with that domain, I got my cool dixonary.net email address (and offered it to others but nobody took it) and we played the game for a while.
In 2012 they stopped offering new accounts to the cool free (other than domain renewal fee) product we had but let us keep it. No problem. We kept playing the game.
A few years ago they decided to shut down the product we were on and “migrate” our “legacy free” account to a new product. Mostly the same view for the handful of you who visit the site to search used words or read Paul’s awesome “Real Rules” or other stuff. The custom domain broke but no big deal.
Well, finally after over a decade (or two?) of freeloading off of Google, they are finally saying “pay us or leave”. (I’m paraphrasing but that’s the gist of it.)
I’m faced with the following options:
I’m leaning toward the latter two options but also don’t really have webmastering skills and am not sure if the juice is worth the squeeze.
So this is basically a call for help. I don’t mind paying a bit for hosting if we have a useful site, but I am not the best person to set up a useful site and I think some of you are.
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“One thought might be to get free hosting and a free interim subdomain name”
I currently am paying for the server where the tapcis.com site is hosted. It is completely free (as an add on) to add any code we want to that server, even in completely basic HTML if that’s what someone wants to do. Dixonary.tapcis.com is trivial to add…. I’m sure I can figure how to redirect dixonary.net there.
From: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Efrem G Mallach <efrem....@gmail.com>
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Date: Friday, January 28, 2022 at 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] The future of the dixonary.net site
Agree with what everyone has already said.
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A lot of the people on the list are/were former players. Some only played one round.
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A lot of the people on the list are/were former players. Some only played one round.
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