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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We need to ask wikia.com administrators to make such redirect
> in .htaccess file for yade.wikia.com :
>
>   RedirectMatch 301 /(.*) http://new-yade-address.org/
>
> This 301:
>
> - tells google that all search results which applied to old address
>   will now apply to new address. And all "google points" connected
>   with old address will be linked to the new one.
>
> - a person opening old address will be automatically redirected by
>   the browser to the new one. People won't have a choice - they will
>   HAVE to use the new one. Becasue the old one will redirect them to
>   new one.
>
>   
I didn't know wikia would accept to redirect outside their own server. 
If so, this is great.

> Asking wikia.com admins to change this redirect later from
> https://yade.hmg.inpg.fr to http://new-yade-address.org/ will cause
> some extra trouble.
>
>   
Not sure, since the future "yade-xxx.org" would just redirect to the 
current https adress as well (or I missed a point?), so...

> My conclusion: get the domain name first.
>   
... no need to wait.

> We could do some voting on domain names, heheh.
>
> * ya.de
> * y4d3.org
> * yade-dem.org
> * yyaaddee.org
> * open-yade.org
> * yade-project.org
> * yade-code.org
> * yade-open-dem.org
>
>   
I vote for  yade-open-dem.org

Bruno

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