hg-scm.{org,net,com} domain names

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Dec 16 11:39:41 CST 2013


On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 10:18 +0100, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I got a mail today that the hg-scm.org, hg-scm.net, and hg-scm.com
> domain names will be renewed in five weeks. I notice we (dsop) also have
> mercurial-scm.org registered.
> 
> Do we need all of them? Has anybody got some statistics about how many
> hits we get through each domain?

We're not currently logging which host clients are requesting, but the
name is showing up in the referrer field. Thus, these numbers aren't
terribly accurate, but should give some idea:

# grep hg-scm.org access.log | wc
   1209   25363  296269
# grep hg-scm.net access.log | wc
     12     252    2811
# grep hg-scm.com access.log | wc
    209    4401   48505
# grep mercurial-scm.org access.log | wc
   1262   33932  354769
# wc access.log
  101909  2153198 27712003 access.log

I'd say we can safely drop the .net and .com domains.

> If we do need them, could someone configure the webserver at
> mercurial.selenic.com to issue 301 redirects for all the other domains
> back to the canonical mercurial.selenic.com name? I assume that's the
> site we want Google and other search engines to see as canonical.

I can add that to my very long list of sysadmin chores.

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