The UKRS.INFO Domain [Geek Stuff]

Hi Folks

There's some great stuff floating around on various web sites (e.g. Jason's
spaces DB), I've been wondering if we should collect them under one UKRS
banner? This would be in addition to the real site names such as the
scuba-addict site.

We've got some unused UKRS domains, one of which is UKRS.INFO which I've now
placed under a very flexible DNS control system (ZoneEdit). This allows us
to do things like sub-domains, we could have http://dives.ukrs.info/,
http://people.ukrs.info/... anything you like really.

For the real owners and webmasters of the sites how it is done would be up
to you -

+ Simple web forwarding to your site
+ Masked web forwarding with you in a frame
+ Actual ANAME resolution to a place of your choosing (you handle the host
header identification!) so you would host the http://xxx.ukrs.info/
sub-domain
+ You would be more than welcome to email aliases (eg. dives@ukrs.info) if
you want them

If people like this idea then I'll place the DNS control for a spare UKRS
domain under the control of the UKRS Webmasters (hint : any more
webmasters?). If the idea takes off we'll need somebody to author/host the
www.ukrs.info index page as well

Discuss.

Keith L

"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote...

> You are more than welcome to use any of my stuff. (Stoney Cove
> Temperatures, Slack Water Database, Glossary and anything else I add to
> it...)

What do you want and how do you want it done? Something simple like this -

http://stoneytemps.ukrs.info/
or http://www.stoneytemps.ukrs.info/

and mailto:stoneytemps@ukrs.info

Suggest some other sub-domains.

Keith L
[mailto:keithl@ukrecscuba.org.uk]

In article <3fcb987f$0$52885$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>,
Keith Lawrence <false@nospam.com> wrote:
>Hi Folks
>
>If people like this idea then I'll place the DNS control for a spare UKRS
>domain under the control of the UKRS Webmasters (hint : any more
>webmasters?). If the idea takes off we'll need somebody to author/host the
>www.ukrs.info index page as well

I'm more than happy to host any of this stuff for you as required. PHP &
MySQL, etc. if you want it. I don't have that much time to do any authoring
right now though...

Gordon

You have mail!

CAS

"CAS" <calumscottTAKETHISBITOUT@yahoo.com> wrote ...

> You have mail!

So do you - any you have sub-domains as well

K

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:37:35 +0000, Keith Lawrence wrote:

> + Simple web forwarding to your site
> + Masked web forwarding with you in a frame

I don't think that either of these are particularly good ideas. The masked
is bad because search engines like Google don't follow masked links. Your
site gets a listing with just the contents of the frameset.

> + Actual ANAME resolution to a place of your choosing (you handle the host
> header identification!) so you would host the http://xxx.ukrs.info/
> sub-domain

Would be better, though personally I'm not interested as I think it would
just confuse things. I'd rather stick with the single URL I've got which
is already reasonably high in the search engines.

Maybe a page containing links to the various active UKRS people's sites
might be worth doing. It would have to be more than a straight list of
links though. There are already quick enough of them.

Jason

--
See http://www.scuba-addict.co.uk/ to view UK dive spaces or add your own.

> > + Simple web forwarding to your site
> > + Masked web forwarding with you in a frame
>
> I don't think that either of these are particularly good ideas. The masked
> is bad because search engines like Google don't follow masked links. Your
> site gets a listing with just the contents of the frameset.

I definately agree - don't make everything appear to be the same domain /
page by masking the real url. Makes bookmarking pages difficult, frames are
generally evil, that kind of thing. I'd say the best use for it would be
using eg stoneytemp.ukrs.info would just be a very simple redirection to
forward you to the actual website, whatever that may be (still can't
remember...) :O\

David

"Jason" <jason.usenet.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote ...

> > + Simple web forwarding to your site
> > + Masked web forwarding with you in a frame

> I don't think that either of these are particularly good
> ideas. The masked is bad because search engines like Google
> don't follow masked links. Your site gets a listing with just
> the contents of the frameset.

I'll agree with the problems with masked, it has it's uses where stuff is
transient. Simple forwarding would be best in most cases.

> > + Actual ANAME resolution...

> Would be better, though personally I'm not
> interested as I think it would just confuse
> things. I'd rather stick with the single URL
> I've got which is already reasonably high in
> the search engines.

In your case I totally agree, you've got your own well established 'brand'
outside of UKRS. That suggestion was for anybody who was thinking "I would
like to do xxx for UKRS", they would be welcome to a URL. Combined with
Gordon's very generous offer of free hosting for any such UKRS sites then if
anybody has the skills/inclination then we can probably sort them out a
dedicated hosting account and a UKRS URL to go with it.

> Maybe a page containing links to the various active
> UKRS people's sites might be worth doing. It would
> have to be more than a straight list of links though.
> There are already quite enough of them.

You're lucky because you are on the home page and not hidden within our
hundreds of links But yes, that was the idea behind using UKRS.INFO for
such things. Keep it for the major active sites, like the temperature finder
and your who's who. My idea behind the top level www.ukrs.info site would be
just a simple list.

Your call Jason. If we can get a www.ukrs.info simple list page going then
you'd be very welcome to a link. A simple redirection to your URL from
something like http://dives.ukrs.info/ would drive people to your site and
give UKRS some continuity if you (or anyone else) wanted to move the UKRS
lists or take over the running of it. You can also have a masked email
redirector if you want it.

CAS has shown an interest for his sites, the offer is there for all on UKRS,
we just need to kick-start it and get something going - if people want to
that is.

Keith L