[The Starport News]Acquisition of an old domain

Whohooo! Sushi, great!

Grats, I’m actually really pleased to see this to tell you the truth. Really couldn’t have went to a better place.

Also, I’d like to add that our news submit module should now really work

If it doesnt, you will no longer see a blank page, but you will get a HTTP 500 internal server error response (on any page that has a critical error for that matter).

Oh my… whomever the contributor is - oh my indeed!

I honestly thought that domain was gone

Nice… bout time.

I have a copy of the old background if you want to go retro.

What a triumph for the Freelancer Community this is!

Sizer wrote:
What a triumph for the Freelancer Community this is!

Indeed. Whoever was responsible for the generous donation - should be warmly thanked and congratulated

Such news should surely be spread amongst the community. People often say there is a lack of Freelancer related news - here is possibly one of the most unexpected ones in the past year

Who is the donator? Thanks to him/her.

So amazing new! LancersReactor can also sleep great tonight! Realy Happy to learn to learn it! FL community will apreciat it! 8-) I’m so GLAD here!

You are awesome, Mr. Anonymous Donator.

Great purchase, guys! Hopefully this will help to restabilize the Freelancer community. Or do whatever voodoo is intended to be done by this.

Quite apparently OP thinks otherwise. That’s rather unfortunate.

What obstacles prevented us from obtaining this domain sooner?

It was still owned by that random Jason guy who tried to use it to promote some kind of online browser game. Then it fell into disuse before being put back on availability, as far as I know through an auction.

Did someone just literally say “here’s the domain” Or was it more a “I’d like to get you the domain”

Or is that classified

There was an auction. It is common for link farmers to snatch domains that still receive traffic.

Thanks to a group effort, we won that auction. Any more information doesnt really matter.

in right hands!
-= nice news =-

Must admit, used to think the domain register holders (on behalf of whomever bought it) used to sell old domains in bulk to such sitters… so really glad it’s going to be back to what it should be - Freelancer

But the current isn’t ? As from my point of view, the only Lancer’s Reactor will remain the existent one, and not the new (well old) domain you acquired. It might be a great achievement though, but think about this… do you really expect TLR members to come to join the “new” one that is hosted by TSP ?

Dave.Synk wrote:
But the current isn’t ? As from my point of view, the only Lancer’s Reactor will remain the existent one, and not the new (well old) domain you acquired. It might be a great achievement though, but think about this… do you really expect TLR members to come to join the “new” one that is hosted by TSP ?

Why do people assume it is only to try and steal members? Utterly baffled by this perception. Members post on places they want to. If people want to post on a site, they post on a site. If they don’t, they don’t. You can’t “steal” members… so where is this perception coming from? :roll:

By the simple fact that there can’t exist two domains having the same name. In our case, we will have TLR.com and TLR.org… what point exists in this ?