Custom domain name

[hlapp]

We should think about giving the site a permanent custom domain name, which would help with memorability, and would isolate from any future move of the repo to a different organization or Git host.

Possible choices include the following:

• popgen.evoio.org
• popgen.evo.io
• popgen.nescent.org
• popgeninfo.org
• popgen.io

Of these, I have full (evoio.org, evo.io) or indirect (nescent.org) control over the domains, and adding a subdomain is easy and has no added cost. The last two require new domain registrations (and subsequent upkeep of those). Unfortunately, popgen.info is already taken.

There are also more creative ones :smile_cat: :

• popgen.ninja
• popgen.rocks
• popgen.yoga

[zkamvar]

For posterity, when we go with a new site, we'll have to go through and modify all of the direct links.

[zkamvar]

Also, I'm not married to having the Info at the end of our name, especially since a capital I and lowercase l are so easily confused.

[zkamvar]

That being said, I'm partial to popgen.nescent.org to tie it back to the hackathon.

[hlapp]

As we are getting closer to submission, we should make a decision here.

@coughls, @smanel, @mmlopezu, @grunwald - any thoughts, preferences, other suggestions, or votes?

[smanel]

I like the creative one, but It can afraid people. So I vote for

popgen.nescent.org

But is popgen.org not available (shorter?)

[mmlopezu]

I can't see the options, but I am ok with whatever the collective decides!

Margarita

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Stéphanie Manel notifications@github.com wrote:

I like the creative one, but It can afraid people. So I vote for

popgen.nescent.org

But is popgen.org not available (shorter?)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NESCent/popgenInfo/issues/165#issuecomment-196182476.

Margarita M. López-Uribe NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Entomology and Department of Applied Ecology North Carolina State University https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/mm-lopez-uribe/ https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/margarita-m-lopez-uribe/

[hlapp]

But is popgen.org not available (shorter?)

It's been taken since 2001. The site seems currently down, but you can see on the Internet Archive what at least it used to be until recently.

[coughls]

I like popgen.nescent.org as well.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Hilmar Lapp notifications@github.com wrote:

But is popgen.org not available (shorter?)

It's been taken since 2001. The site seems currently down, but you can see on the Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212948/http://popgen.org/ what at least it used to be until recently.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NESCent/popgenInfo/issues/165#issuecomment-196322444.

[zkamvar]

It's been taken since 2001. The site seems currently down, but you can see on the Internet Archive what at least it used to be until recently.

I like their greeting on the side panel. Do you think we should use their JS for our front page? :laughing:

<font face="arial" size="1" color="red">
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write("<font color=green size=-1>")
day = new Date()
hr = day.getHours()
if (hr ==1)
document.write("Good morning!   1AM and still your going! ")
if (hr ==2)
document.write("Hey, it's past  2AM!   The bars must be closed!")
if (hr ==3)
document.write("Hey, it's after  3AM!   Are you a vampire or what?")
if (hr ==4)
document.write("4AM?  You must roam all night huh!")
if (hr ==5)
document.write("Whoa! It's almost daylight and your still going!")
if (hr ==6)
document.write("Hey, isn't it  too early to be using your computer")
if ((hr == 6) || (hr ==7) || (hr ==8) || (hr == 9) || (hr ==10))
document.write("Good Morning! Welcome to the web!")
if (hr ==11)
document.write("11AM... What are you doing surfing web so early??")
if (hr ==12)
document.write("NOON!  Great, it must be time for breakfast!")
if (hr ==13)
document.write("1PM  Ooops!  You missed breakfast, don't miss lunch!")
if (hr ==14)
document.write("It's 2PM. Have you eaten lunch yet or you missed it also??")
if ((hr==15) || (hr==16))
document.write("Good Afternoon! Surfing already?")
if ((hr==17) || (hr==18) || (hr==19) || (hr==20) || (hr==21) || (hr==22))
document.write("Good Evening! Welcome to prime time on the web in the new millenium!")
if (hr==23)
document.write("It's almost midnight... Aren't you sleepy yet?")
if (hr==0)
document.write("It's midnight... do you ever sleep?")
document.write("</font>")
// -->
</script>
</font>

[mmlopezu]

My vote is for: popgen.nescent.org

Margarita

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Zhian N. Kamvar notifications@github.com wrote:

It's been taken since 2001. The site seems currently down, but you can see on the Internet Archive what at least it used to be until recently.

I like their greeting on the side panel. Do you think we should use their JS for our front page? [image: :laughing:]

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/NESCent/popgenInfo/issues/165#issuecomment-196392316.

Margarita M. López-Uribe NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Entomology and Department of Applied Ecology North Carolina State University https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/mm-lopez-uribe/ https://sites.google.com/a/cornell.edu/margarita-m-lopez-uribe/

[hlapp]

Site is live now at http://popgen.nescent.org after DNS changes have been made.

[hlapp]

I am going to tentatively close this issue. Although personally I wouldn't have leaned to a subdomain of nescent.org (mainly because the main website, nescent.org, doesn't have a long-time presence), all preferences and votes stated were unanimously for popgen.nescent.org. Hence, while we can go back at any time and revise the choice, the unanimity behind popgen.nescent.org suggests we're going to want to stick with it.