The observant out there will notice the redirection from www.dubea.org to www.dubea.com. My 3 year “free” hosting for dubea.org at 1and1 is at an end, and I have a feeling they will be rather exorbitant in the fees to extract my domain name from them. As I had registered dubea.com at GoDaddy back in March, I decided to go ahead and use them for hosting. Their “economy” plan seems to be what I need, and 2 years worth was about $70. I’ve already had to call tech support, and they insisted on knowing the last four digits of my credit card before they would speak with me. H’mmmm. Anyway, GoDaddy gives you free hosting for a domain registration, but you have to turn that off before you can associate the domain with my newly purchased services. It sat there for 24 hours and nothing happened, so I had to call them to get it fixed.
Obviously it is fixed as you are reading this message at dubea.com. I’ve got a simple redirect at dubea.org at present, but depending on what 1and1 does I’ll just get GoDaddy to host it once my free package expires if my domain renewal fee is not too much at 1and1. If it is, I’ll wait until it dies and then register it somewhere else. No big deal really. So if perhaps you sent me or Melanie an e-mail to our dubea.org addresses, and they bounce back, try sending the same username to dubea.com. Pretty simple!
The last thing to do is get my Group Office collaboratory migrated over to dubea.com. Hopefully I will get that done next week. It’s a good tool that I’ve been using to good effect in my corporate development efforts that have been going on for a while. All the pertinent files are there and any of the users can download or upload data when then need. This way we don’t have to worry about e-mailing files that are too big and such. Pretty cool.