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Why are you starting all these new domains? You're wasting money with all the registrations, and you're
diluting the brand you're trying to build.
Dave, I am the one paying out of my pocket for web hosting and domains, outside of abstractgamers. They all are hosted (outside of here) by the same hosting company, and thus the bandwidth is the same. Each of them serve different purposes. This site here came first, before the name IAGO was picked. Then came the IAGO World Tour. After this was the IAGO Clubhouse, which should serve as the player's site for the future. That is where the community will settle, with the intention for the expenses for hosting be covered. The IAGO Hall of Fame is the most recent thing, which is used to honor everything abstract strategy games. It happens to reflect the way IAGO grew in functionality.
The brand is "IAGO", and it has multiple functions. If you check out thinks like the NFL and other sites, you see companies will have multiple sites up.
By the way, why does others spending less than $40 a year concern you (this is the cost of all the domains)? If you want to be part of IAGO's governing boards and committees, I can get you on the email list, and also in a management host site away from here. As of now, it isn't costing you or anyone else anything. Not sure why this is a problem. The being across multiple servers does always have something IAGO up, like the case of the IAGO News being on Blogger, and the IAGO specific sites being elsewhere, and the other site being here.
Also all the IAGO domains I have an easier time accessing actually. I can get pages up in a hurry. Doing things through here requires more work on my end, in addition to having to wait for changes to get posted.
The investment in mindspace is more important than the cost. All these iagoyaddayadda domains are confusing and
hard to guess exactly how to spell. As a brand, the web site name ought to be as simple as possible so it can be
communicated informally. Once someone makes a bookmark the domain doesn't matter at all. If everything is
linked through one domain, additions, deletions and reorganizations are much simpler.
Also, from the viewpoint of an affiliated site, it's much friendlier (and probably more effective) to have a single
link to "great stuff about abstract games at www.abstractgames.org" than to have a pantheon of links to a zoo
of puppet sites targeted to separate subtopics.
If I had my druthers, I would register IAGO.com or IAGO.org for IAGO. But, they are already are taken. This forces other options to take place. These options have resulted in certain strengths though, like am able to have each year of the IAGO World Tour to have a separate subdomain: 2008.IAGOWorldTour.com, 2009.IAGOWorldTour.com
As it is now, IAGO World Tour is a legal business entity under the name, IAGO World Tour Enterprises, and it holds everything IAGO in it now. Once IAGO is spun off as its own entity, then it needs its own site. We can keep that abstractgamers.org.
The mindspace is everything IAGO. That is what counts here at this point.
By the way, likely to get around to register internationalabstractgamesorganization.org some day, but that is way to long for anyone to want to type.
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