Wouldn't cotech.coop be better than coops.tech?

Josef Davies-Coates Public Seen by 93

I guess it doesn't make a huge amount of different but personally I think cotech.coop would be a lot better url for CoTech than our existing coops.tech domain (more pricey though)

What do you think? Does it matter?

Josef Davies-Coates Wed 27 Jun 2018 9:39AM

Wait, would this have been better posted on https://community.coops.tech/ ? :)

Is the idea that we discuss things in over there before coming to make decisions about them over here? (I think perhaps it is - in which case perhaps I should delete this discussion topic and start another there...)

I guess this raises another issue about on-boarding so any new members know better what to do where/ what processes have already been established.

Josef Davies-Coates Wed 27 Jun 2018 9:40AM

Think I'll do a quick poll just to gauge initial views on this domain issue... (and to test out some of the newer loomio decision tools)

Simon Grant Wed 27 Jun 2018 9:45AM

yes I think it would!

Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Wed 27 Jun 2018 9:50AM

Yes cotech.coop would be better, but it would cost us £61.20 for the first year and £67.32 per year after that, whereas coops.tech cost less than a fiver for the first year and currently costs £31.20 to renew per year.

If anyone would like to commit to pay for a .coop and to pay for renewing it indefinitely then I'd agree we should get one.

When this has been discussed previously I was of the view that it would be best to wait until we had a CoTech legal entity, but with no signs that we are moving in that direction it doesn't make sense not to have a .coop apart from for cost reasons.

Josef Davies-Coates Wed 27 Jun 2018 10:16AM

I wasn't aware how much cheaper gandi are than uk.domains.coop! bonkers.

Simon Ball (Blake House) Wed 27 Jun 2018 10:00AM

Personally I prefer coops.tech as a domain and not sure it would be worth the faff at the moment to move everything around, updating existing marketing materials and informing people of the new address.

Also agree with @chriscroome re the legal entity & coop domain stuff.

Chris Croome (Webarchitects Co-operative) Wed 27 Jun 2018 10:10AM

If we were to get cotech.coop we would also need to keep coops.tech indefinitely for hosting redirects to ensure that cool URIs don't change.

Josef Davies-Coates Wed 27 Jun 2018 10:15AM

I also don't like link rot, but not sure we'd really have to do it indefinitely! Surely a bunch of 301 redirects for a few years would perfectly well suffice? :)

Poll Created Wed 27 Jun 2018 10:10AM

Which url do you think is better for CoTech? Closed Wed 4 Jul 2018 9:03AM

Outcome

by Josef Davies-Coates Thu 5 Jul 2018 12:33PM

I mostly asked this just as a temperature check (and because I personally think cotech.coop should obviously be our domain - to the extent I sometimes accidentally type it in the url bar!) but whilst most people who participated in the poll do prefer cotech.coop over coops.tech (13 to 10) the responses made clear that most people aren't really too bothered either way and lean toward a "if it aint broke, don't fix it" approach. Perhaps one to come back to in the future...

Is cotech.coop better/ more appropriate?