11-22-2015, 02:58 PM
Now that the domain situation is fixed, and we have our permanent one...I know that the obvious question is "what the hell happened?".
Well, I will give you the short version. When I was putting this board together, I put it together quickly on a free platform, with the intent of moving to a paid host after everything was done, which we did. When we were preparing to move to the paid host, another member offered to let us use his 'bengalsboard.net' url, and I agreed.
In retrospect, that was a terrible idea and completely my fault for not getting my own domain name at the time. That member recently became unsatisfied with his role, and with certain actions/decisions that he thought should have or shouldn't have occurred recently. I won't get into those specifics much more, because those things are handled by the staff.
But, when the member didn't get his way...he literally took his ball (the url) and went home. Attempts were made by myself and even the host site, to reason with him or to reach a deal where we could get the url. Unfortunately, we couldn't reach an agreement. So, we had to get a new domain name, thebengalsboard.com.
It wasn't something we wanted to happen, and now there is work to do to get everyone back in the fold, and get the new domain quickly ranked with Google. Again, I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration that this caused. I know it's been a pain in the ass.
Thanks,
BJ
Well, I will give you the short version. When I was putting this board together, I put it together quickly on a free platform, with the intent of moving to a paid host after everything was done, which we did. When we were preparing to move to the paid host, another member offered to let us use his 'bengalsboard.net' url, and I agreed.
In retrospect, that was a terrible idea and completely my fault for not getting my own domain name at the time. That member recently became unsatisfied with his role, and with certain actions/decisions that he thought should have or shouldn't have occurred recently. I won't get into those specifics much more, because those things are handled by the staff.
But, when the member didn't get his way...he literally took his ball (the url) and went home. Attempts were made by myself and even the host site, to reason with him or to reach a deal where we could get the url. Unfortunately, we couldn't reach an agreement. So, we had to get a new domain name, thebengalsboard.com.
It wasn't something we wanted to happen, and now there is work to do to get everyone back in the fold, and get the new domain quickly ranked with Google. Again, I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration that this caused. I know it's been a pain in the ass.
Thanks,
BJ
