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#1
 ... we'll get a new site name soon ...  :ph34r:

 

The thing is - we need a .com address really and acquiring photozone.com would cost us a very high four digit $ figure ... and I simply refuse to feed the domain trolls for nothing.

 

Other than that nothing will change - if you access the site via photozone.de, you will simply be redirected to the new domain. 

 

 

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#2
At least myself, as well as (I suppose) many many others don't mind the .de extension, why won't the other website point to photozone.de instead of the other way round. ?

Why should a good site have a .com extension ? 

Besides photozone.com is recognized now by many filters as a phishing site and is blocked. 

And since we are speaking about the website  the "zone" is now empty of pictures maybe getting them back would be a nice idea ?

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#3
It may well be that the frequent users don't mind the .de extension but it's just odd fir newcomers.

Other reason is that .de is highly unattractive for advertisers - we aren't really on their radar because of that - and with diminishing revenues we have to fish for opportunities.

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#4
Good luck!

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#5
Pity.

But I know I'm going to be coming here through that redirect regardless; this site's name has been so ingrained in my brain that it is the second site I'm checking after coming awake.

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#6
You don't know how many arguments I had about this with Markus ... ;-)

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#7
.de has always been a comforting thing to me.  Back in the early days of the internet I used to be a regular on Wilders computer site which was a .de site.  It seemed the sleazier sites became, the more I looked to non-US sites for quality security and business applications, and more genuine and enthusiastic forums.  Then I got involved with beta testing and using a couple French based forums and software products.  Sad to say, but I find American sites are often a lot ruder and less helpful.  But, hey!  That's just based one my own experiences.  You may love .com sites and blogs.  It's just my own particular history.

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#8
photozone.de is easy to pronounce, easy to memorize, add to that it is not blocked anywhere, at work there's a filter that blocks almost everything, of the photography site only PZ is not blocked all photography sites ending with a .com are blocked.

.de still has its advantages, you want another site with .com  for commercial purposes fine but do keep photozone.de


Quote:this site's name has been so ingrained in my brain that it is the second site I'm checking after coming awake.
It's the same here
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#9
Actually photozone.de is being blocked by the Avira Internet Security Suite. I have no idea why they do that - inquiries have never been answered - but it's probably costing us 10% of the traffic. It's totally bizarre. I suspect that this relates to the crap content on photozone.com. One more reason to switch the domain. I've registered the name in two variations for .com and .net.

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#10
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

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