[Only Topic] Technical maintenance on Forumotion domains.

by **SLGray** March 8th 2018, 7:44 am

Hello,

For information, since early March 2018, we have started technical maintenance on some Forumotion base domaion names.

In order to guarantee the availability and the stability of the forums which these domains enter in the composition of their Internet addresses, we will carry out a transfer of these forums on the default language domain of the forum (For example: Forumotion.com if the forum default language is English, serbianforum.info if the forum default language is Serbian,...etc) or other domains when the chosen final URL is not available.

Here is the list of concerned domains for the month of March 2018. (This list is not exhaustive and will evolve every month throughout 2018).

See the concerned domains:

Note that forums having a personalized domain name acquired via Forumotion and having forced the URL redirection will not be affected by this transfer which will be completely transparent.

As a reminder, if for one reason or another you no longer find your forum URL, you can follow the following steps:

You have to connect to your founder tools using your foundation email address and your foundation password
Go to the "direct connection" tab
Fill in your founder username and your forum password

Then you end up on the forum admin panel without needing to know his new address Wink

We apologize for the inconvenience :rose:

by Kami-sama March 8th 2018, 11:56 am

I think this is more important info, that you failed to mention:

SLGray wrote:If you change the address of your frum (forum1.forumactif.com > forum2.forumactif.com) there is a redirection, but if you change it again ( > forum3.forumactif.com ), the redirection from forum1.for... won't work anymore.

brandon_g wrote:I have news on this, so current re direct will end March 22nd in your case. If you change the ending to the domain no to something else we will still support, the re direct will no longer work.

-Brandon

by **brandon_g** March 8th 2018, 2:02 pm

The re direct lasts until the domain name expires. Which is different in every single case. In the case of huhohi.com it is March 22nd.

Either way SEO will not be effected as a of the changes.

-Brandon

by **SLGray** March 9th 2018, 6:07 pm

The was post has been updated.

by Kikimalou March 9th 2018, 6:21 pm

Hello, my forum (http://sts-forum.forumieren.de) has some troubles. I am even unable to log in now, I only see the advertisement, is it a consequence of the maintenance? I hope I post in the right topic.

by **SLGray** March 9th 2018, 6:30 pm

Kikimalou wrote:Hello, my forum (http://sts-forum.forumieren.de) has some troubles. I am even unable to log in now, I only see the advertisement, is it a consequence of the maintenance? I hope I post in the right topic.

This is not the topic to ask for help. Please start a topic in the correct support section.

by Kikimalou March 9th 2018, 6:37 pm

Ok, Connection Problems is maybe the correct support section?

by **SLGray** March 9th 2018, 6:39 pm

That will work.

by **SarkZKalie** March 12th 2018, 11:50 am

Sorry for posting this here

But these domain won't usable after maintenance day end, right?

by **The Godfather** March 12th 2018, 2:32 pm

@SarkZKalie No, they will not be available anymore. The goal is to group the forums on the most used domains to facilitate their management and maintenance especially with regard to SSL certificates and future package updates.

If your forum has a domain name acquired through Forumotion and the redirection of the base URL is forced to the personal domain, the change of base URL will be transparent and not visible that's why we recommend using a custom domain name Wink

by **SLGray** March 15th 2018, 5:09 am

If your forum falls into this situation, you can log into the forum's utilities with the creation email. When you login, you should be able to see the new link.

by Shen Rajinto March 15th 2018, 7:17 am

Is this why my forum no longer has https in it's URL? www.insuncorp.com (insun.forumotion.com)

by **The Godfather** March 15th 2018, 11:56 am

Shen Rajinto wrote:Is this why my forum no longer has https in it's URL? www.insuncorp.com (insun.forumotion.com)

No relation to this topic...! SSL installed on February 11, 2017 and expired on February 11, 2018 without any renewal. If you want to secure your forum with an SSL certificate, you must install a new one Wink

by **SLGray** April 30th 2018, 6:44 pm

The list of domain names (extensions) have been updated.

by PACERi May 4th 2018, 4:14 pm

Hi guys.
I have two questions regarding domain name change:

1) after automatic change of our domain from http://musicarenje.forum3.biz to http://musicarenje.serbianforum.info everyone who uses some of our old links or through web search click to link http://musicarenje.forum3.biz are redirected to http://musicarenje.top-forum.net/
This second forum http://musicarenje.top-forum.net/ has nothing to do with us. We just want that old links for our forum transfer people to our new domain. Because we have over 500 members and over 33000 posts during last 10 years, and this really makes an issue for our members.
How to solve this problem?

2)second question is regarding manual change of domain name. Guy who have created our forum has passed away a few years ago. So we needed to change email for logging as Admin (main administrator/creator of our forum) because we weren't able to use his creation email.
How can we access forum utilities if that is possible?

Thanks in advance on your patience.

by Guest May 4th 2018, 4:21 pm

@PACERi

1: You might want to send a newsletter in order to let the members know about the change of the URL. This way everyone will note Wink

2: https://help.forumotion.com/t81878-recovery-or-change-founder-of-an-account

Best regards.

by PACERi May 4th 2018, 6:10 pm

@mpelmmc
Thanks on fast respond! cheers

1) I just have send newsletter a few minutes ago. But the problem with redirecting our old links to the another forum and not our is still a problem. How to resolve that?
2)Thanks, but this doesn't help me, because on utilities page here his old creation email is still valid and not the new one.
I have the old password for Admin (founder) account (that was connected to founders creation email) and I have used it to reset email account connected to admin account on our forum after he passed away but I can't access his email account to set up new founders email if you understand me.

by **Shadow** May 4th 2018, 6:15 pm

Hello,

Please @PACERi, do not ask for help in the announcement forum, you already have opened a topic:
https://help.forumotion.com/t155711-forum-hijacked#1071826 Wink

Regards,
Shadow

by **SLGray** May 4th 2018, 7:03 pm

1. If you are referring to search engines, it will take time for those search engines to index your forum again. You can speed up the process by sharing the content on social media.

by PACERi May 5th 2018, 1:17 pm

Shadow wrote:Hello,

Please @PACERi, do not ask for help in the announcement forum, you already have opened a topic:
https://help.forumotion.com/t155711-forum-hijacked#1071826

Regards,
Shadow

Thanks and sorry i would not do that again.

by jacquline09 May 6th 2018, 11:05 pm

My domain ending with forumpro.eu is not forwarding. founder tools also not working. So where is the forum?? Sad

by **brandon_g** May 7th 2018, 2:08 am

Send a staff member a pm with your forum url and foundation email address. We can look it up for you.

Only pm this info, do not post it publicly.

-Brandon

by Wecoc May 7th 2018, 5:18 am

Looks like the concerned domains list is getting larger Confused

I've seen changes in domains which are not in that list, and they were pretty common (I thought the most common were out of danger).

forumotion.com (in the case I've seen it changed to board-directory.net)
foroactivo.com (in the cases I've seen it changed to activo.mx)

If your previous link had one of these domains and now you can't locate the new one, try luck with these substitutions.
I hope this helps.

by **Shadow** May 7th 2018, 1:39 pm

Hello,

@Wecoc, this isn't the same issue but yes, some forums of these domains have been moved on secondary domains. For technical reasons, forums with less than 50 posts have been moved from the main domains (forumotion.com in particular) to secondary domains such as board-directory.net, iftopic.com, darkbb.com, all-up.com, team-talk.net, your-talk.com, bestgoo.com Wink

These forums are free to move back on the main domain if the administrators want to.

Regards,
Shadow

by PoodleyPie May 9th 2018, 7:34 pm

Shadow, I hope I don't sound dense, but does this mean if I buy an annual premium package with a .com domain,

1) Forumotion will never change the url or domain name as long as I keep up the subscription cost?

2) Even if I have only a few posts per month?

3) And will I be able to select a .com instead of .net? I found a new .com name that I'd like to have and these are easier to remember, so I need to know if I'd have control over that.

Thank you.

by **SLGray** May 9th 2018, 8:02 pm

This is only about the original domain name of your forum, not a domain name you purchase.

Example -

Original Domain Name: help.forumotion.com (changed)

Purchased Domain Name: help.com (not changed)

If you let the domain name (help.com) expire, or you removed it, your original domain name could be different if it is listed in the list in the first post.

by henkipajailija May 14th 2018, 1:54 am

Hi. I had a web domain named henkipaja.palstani.com. I cannot access it now. It could've had under 50 posts. What is the situation with it?

by **SLGray** May 14th 2018, 2:45 am

SLGray wrote:As a reminder, if for one reason or another you no longer find your forum URL, you can follow the following steps:

You have to connect to your founder tools using your foundation email address and your foundation password
Go to the "direct connection" tab
Fill in your founder username and your forum password

Then you end up on the forum admin panel without needing to know his new address

We apologize for the inconvenience

by henkipajailija May 14th 2018, 11:19 am

Hi, thanks for the reply. The forum is a few years old and I didn't think I would need the foundation e-mail, so I've deleted it a couple years ago cleaning my mailbox. Is there any other way to find the forum?

by **Shadow** May 14th 2018, 1:43 pm

Hello @henkipajailija,

We are looking at it, I will let you know soon.

Regards,
Shadow

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