Drops today - April 2014
- Thread starter Cal
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VicLink.com.au was the domain name of the old Victorian Government public transport website which for the last couple of years had redirected to ptv.vic.gov.au.
Sold with a PR of 7.
The Department should have renewed it. Maybe because it was a redirected domain name there was no urgency associated with a website going down when the domain name expired so it just slipped away.
Probably similar to, though not as serious as, what most likely happened to wollongong.com.au which redirected to wollongong.com as the main website and email address so when the au expired the website functioned as usual so nobody realised there was something wrong and the au went through to the drop.
findtim
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i think viclink and wollongong have nothing in common, viclink to me is a silly purchase as its specific to something i feel can not be NOW moneterised, however wollongong would have been a great purchase as it is open to so many different possibilities to make money from.
SURE, the wollongong city council let it drop, but then it only really went into public enterprise, viclink sucks compared to that IMHO
PR7, but what do you do with that? you just get a HUGE bounce rate when people do not find what they want/EXPECT.
tim
I wasn't referring to similarities they might have as domain names, I was referring to the way they were both redirected domain names which when they expired did not set off any alarm bells such as a website being down or email accounts not working and so did not motivate anybody to renew them.
Letting wollongong expire was a huge mistake and much more serious than viclink expiring, but I was surmising that viclink expired under similar circumstances and was not simply let go by the IT/marketing/communications department, although this is possible considering the government workplace environment.
In case it wasn't clear in my earlier post viclink.com.au was the vic government public transport website until quite recently before then redirecting to the new .gov website. In my opinion the domain name of a major website should not just be let go after less than two years of redirecting traffic.
