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Farewell to Broadbandreports.com

Google is dictating which domain is to be used? Sounds like the inmates took over the asylum!
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reply to Cudni
FAQ entry copied here for informational purposes:

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Q: Broadbandreports.com vs dslreports.com (#13466)

A: As of 25th November 2005 we are restricting logins to our domain dslreports.com only. We are also going to automatically and transparently redirect all anonymous visitors to the dslreports.com domain as well. The broadbandreports.com domain will remain active, and our site logo will remain broadbandreports.com. Existing logins on broadbandreports.com will remain active, just for convenience, however sooner or later they will expire.

Why the shift?

Unfortunately we have to live within the ecosystem largely defined by the google search engine. The google "page-rank" for dslreports.com is higher than for broadbandreports.com. Google also indexes far more pages for dslreports.com than broadbandreports.com. Google offers no function for "renaming" a site while preserving the hard-won rank within its search results. Since a large part of our income is anonymous visitors from google (and other search engines) it is simply too costly to enforce usage of broadbandreports.com.

Why not allow both?

A login cookie created on one domain is not available on the other. Having two domains active means search engines are indexing the same content twice.

Is dslreports.com still known as BBR then?

Since the logo will still show broadbandreports.com, and the URL broadbandreports.com will still be active (albeit, redirect), then BBR is still a valid tag for the site.

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reply to Cudni
yay, hated broadbandreports.com way too long to write and dslreports just had a homier feeling to it...

reply to Cudni
Finally!

reply to Cudni
Never used broadbandreports.com... what did I miss?

reply to Cudni
That sucks. I've became accustomed to using broadbandreports.com since the name change. I even tell people to goto this site via that domain name. Oh well. Better change the bookmarks early before I forget and think the site is under some heavy maintenance one day when the domain is not longer active. A shame really. broadbandreports had a nice open arms community ring to it. I hope when the domain is no longer active that no one snatches it for their own personal competition.

Just curious, why not just shut down dslreports.com and have them start caching broadbandreports?

It may take a long while, but I'd think it would more pleasing in the end.

Things change. The only thing we can do is hope for some good out of it. At least the site isn't shutting down. Now that would be a shocker.
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reply to Cudni
After all that work to show that this site could help somebody besides the DSL people! Somehow I think we will survive.

reply to Cudni
Yay!!!

Don't forget to change the RSS feed to dslreports.com/... links

reply to Airwolf

reply to Cudni
This will always be broadbandreports to me...but change is a way of life too.
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reply to Cudni
I've always used dslreports.com domain. I guess this won't make any difference to me.

reply to Cudni
Much ado about little enough...it's the content that counts...and with the amount of time I spend here...'nuff said!

P.S....if they want, they could always rename it: PeteCs opinion place.com...:o
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reply to Cudni
I thought it was gonna become www.dialupreports.com??? :D:D

I always used the broadbandreports one before, no problem going back to the dslreports Addy though!
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reply to Cudni
I looked and didn't see it... but maybe this "news" should be on the front page somewhere? Or, at least, somewhere a little more conspicuous than just in Site Help. Just a thought. Or maybe a "sticky" in all the most visited forums for a few days.
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reply to Cudni
It really doesn't matter what the site is called does it? I look at BBR as being the same as DSLR, having figured that it was just a matter of paying for either. The content as far as I know is the same so I guess I am confused. Of course, confusion isn't abnormal for me!
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reply to justin

said by justin:

said by Pacrat:

Google is dictating which domain is to be used? Sounds like the inmates took over the asylum!

Did you read the FAQ entry?
If you'd like to finance the multi-year deficit in adsense income, then be my guest.

reply to Cudni
lets see if anyone gets so infuriated by this that they decide to dollarcide.
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reply to Luvfishin

said by Luvfishin:

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Kinda sucks that where we rate on Google determines the sites name.

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