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EDU Domain Change
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I work at a college that uses a string of letters for its domain. We would like to switch to a domain that is more meaningful. For Example let's say we use www.ttc.edu as the domain but want to go to something like tinkertoycollege.edu or tinkercollege.edu. To make it more difficult we need to maintain the www.ttc.edu as to not lose any traffic to the original domain. I realize that as a college we can only have one .edu domain with the original only being active for the six month domain transfer.
We host our own email services and some web sites based on the orginal domain and would want to switch the email and everything we could to the new domain.
The question...
Would it be recommended to maybe use a .net or some other top level domain for our new domain while we redirect the traffic from the old domain to the new? Or is there a better solution?
I work at a college that uses a string of letters for its domain. We would like to switch to a domain that is more meaningful. For Example let's say we use www.ttc.edu as the domain but want to go to something like tinkertoycollege.edu or tinkercollege.edu. To make it more difficult we need to maintain the www.ttc.edu as to not lose any traffic to the original domain. I realize that as a college we can only have one .edu domain with the original only being active for the six month domain transfer.
We host our own email services and some web sites based on the orginal domain and would want to switch the email and everything we could to the new domain.
The question...
Would it be recommended to maybe use a .net or some other top level domain for our new domain while we redirect the traffic from the old domain to the new? Or is there a better solution?
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cj_1969
As a simple test you could always rebuild the site on an internal server and control the domain yourself in a test environment (should be done anyway). Then you could probably safely mod and test your code under a new domain name and then bring up (replace) the existing site while under the original domain name. Once this is done then you can cut over the domain with a much higher level of confidence that you have mitigated all of the problems and that there will be little or no impact of the domain change.