Feb
20
So, long before our library had a nice and short website URL, we used a rather long one that isn't as easy to remember as one might think:
saratoga.lib.ny.us
Now, we've primarily been using the newer, shorter URL, and have almost all but forgotten about this longer, harder to remember one. Now that we need to move from a purely in-house hosted server to (something else), I need to change the nameservers for each of our domains. The older, longer domain name has lost all related information, possibly during the internal changes at the original .US TLD registrar service. So then, in order to get this back, because it was originally used for US governmental domains, I need to go through a whole slew of forms and bureaucracy with vocabulary that I don't entirely understand, and most of my friends will tell you that I'm quite fluent, at least more so than they are (for the most part).
So, can anyone give me any good reason as to why we should even bother trying to keep this? It's not advertised on any of our marketing material anymore, there are practically no incoming hyperlinks to that domain, and it'll just be a pain in the butt. However, if there's just one good reason as to why we should persist this "thing", I'd gladly go through the trouble of getting access to it back (i.e.: jumping through hoops).
saratoga.lib.ny.us
Now, we've primarily been using the newer, shorter URL, and have almost all but forgotten about this longer, harder to remember one. Now that we need to move from a purely in-house hosted server to (something else), I need to change the nameservers for each of our domains. The older, longer domain name has lost all related information, possibly during the internal changes at the original .US TLD registrar service. So then, in order to get this back, because it was originally used for US governmental domains, I need to go through a whole slew of forms and bureaucracy with vocabulary that I don't entirely understand, and most of my friends will tell you that I'm quite fluent, at least more so than they are (for the most part).
So, can anyone give me any good reason as to why we should even bother trying to keep this? It's not advertised on any of our marketing material anymore, there are practically no incoming hyperlinks to that domain, and it'll just be a pain in the butt. However, if there's just one good reason as to why we should persist this "thing", I'd gladly go through the trouble of getting access to it back (i.e.: jumping through hoops).
