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First post, by Arantor

Posted on 2007-12-29, 23:30

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I noticed that DOSBox now has its own domain name, which - it has to be said - is very cool.

But please, I'm just curious, what was wrong with "dosbox.sourceforge.net"?

Of course, if it's too long there is always dosbox.sf.net to play with.

Sorry if this seems a silly question.

Reply 1 of 2, by Qbix

Posted on 2007-12-30, 06:06

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it's not silly.
A new domain name and the hosting on a not-sourceforge server allows for a few things that are nice to have.
For example the possibility to host non-opensource frontends on our server instead of only linking to it. (sourceforge forbids storage of non-opensource files on their servers)

An own domain itself is as it says cool. nothing wrong with the old name.

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Reply 2 of 2, by collector

Posted on 2007-12-30, 18:26

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Wasn't someone else using dosbox.com, before? Could be a false memory, but I seem to recall something a little shady on that domain, at one time. This also keeps others from using it, taking advantage of DOSBox's name.

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