Xlnation.city Domain Name

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The Domain xlnation.city has replaced xlnation.net. Don't Panic!! It's still the same XLNation. Please take time to update your bookmarks on your browser. The new domain is registered for 5 years.

Now the boring stuff about why, and what this means? Read if you dare.​

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1. The xlnation.net domain is set to expire on July 2015. For the last month I worked with Hyperwolf to renew or transfer the domain to me. I can't speak for Hyperwolf but my impression is that this is not a big concern of his. We tried the domain transfer process which normally is a simple 24 hour process only to find out that Hyperwolf is not the domain admin. Only a domain admin can authorize a transfer.

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2. He has the relationship (if there is one) with the domain registrar for xlnation.net, so only he can resolve this issue. The domain admin actually owns the domain name and controls it. Not having domain admin control is a bad thing for Hyperwolf and us.

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3. While the internet is fast, a lot of things don't move fast, especially search engine links. To insurance the continuity of XLNation I cannot wait until July to try and resolve the domain issue.

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XLnation.city is newly registered. I created a 301 redirect of xlnation.net to xlnation.city on the server. This is a big flag for search engines. This does some great things:​

• Users going to any link on xlnation.net now automatically "redirect" to xlnation.city. The process is seamless. You should still update your browser bookmarks, since at some point (as early as July 2015) xlnation.net will cease to exist.
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• This informs Google and other search engines that all current xlantion.net urls indexed need updating to xlnation.city. Over time all the search results will be updated to reflect this new reality. This may take 3 to 6 months to complete.​

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Now the Bad News (see there is always bad news.) Sites like Simtropolis, Focus Home Interactive, Reddit, Simcity CN, etc with hard links to xlnation.net have to be "fixed" by the site owners. Links internal with xlnation will function just fine.

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Now the good news (see there is good news). A number of features are now available to me to make XLNation more reliable and faster.

1. I can now implement a service to protect XLNation from Malware, and DDoS attacks

2. I can now implement a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that will speed up the website by moving photos and mods etc into data centers around the globe. When your browser requests a photo and or mod for example it will be serviced from the closest data center to your location.

 

Varies slightly by domain registrar but after it expires hostmonster may "keep it" and then try to sell the domain to the highest bidder. Usually after a few months the domain is released and then anyone else can register it.

The xlnation.net domain will have residual value later with random clicks to it from old links etc, some sites do anything to get traffic to their sites (i.e. adult websites etc). Currently there is an xlnation.org active domain and godaddy is trying to sell the xlnation.com domain.

 

I still hope to get Hyperwolf to at least renew the domain registration for another year.