This is an ask for donations to cover the cost of £40.00 UK GBP for the www.gcbasic.com domain address.
I have picking up this cost but this year a few donations would be welcome.
Donate £1 to £10 or more - anything would help.
The renewal date is 14th November 2020 and the £40.00 would cover two years, if more donations come in then I would increase the number of years for the domain registration.
I will publish all donations and fully account for the donations.
Please consider donating to support this renewal cost.
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The site and domain are owned by Chuck Hellebuyck and were created to bring attention to Great Cow Basic, along with his book and his CHIPINO development board. He registered and still owns the domain.
To the best of my knowledge Chuck had no malicious intent and was a great asset to the community though his magazine articles as well as his advice on the forum.
The Official web site is now GCBASIC.COM mainly because Chuck already owned greatcowbasic.com. A link to gcbasic.com would be welcome but as his site is predating the official site it is probably not mandatory.
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But Ionos (1&1) are charging £13 a year for a dot com domain. (And only £1 for the first year.) That doesn't include any "hosting" but if the site is pointed to Sourceforge, that might not matter anyway?
I have been with Ionos (or at least 1&1) for a large number of years for the two domains I hold personally, and they've been pretty good.
I'm sorry for not posting this earlier, but I've been having some major computer problems which has had me formatting the hard drive and re-installing from scratch almost a dozen times in the last month. I'm hoping that I've got the cause of the corruption narrowed down and won't be needing that recovery disk again for some time.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
This is an ask for donations to cover the cost of £40.00 UK GBP for the www.gcbasic.com domain address.
I have picking up this cost but this year a few donations would be welcome.
Donate £1 to £10 or more - anything would help.
The renewal date is 14th November 2020 and the £40.00 would cover two years, if more donations come in then I would increase the number of years for the domain registration.
I will publish all donations and fully account for the donations.
Please consider donating to support this renewal cost.
Please use https://paypal.me/gcbasic?locale.x=en_GB for the donations.
Evan
Evan, is this just for the domain registration, or the hosting as well?
Good question.
Hosting is provided by SourceForge for free. Whilst we host the project within SourceForge there is currently no charge.
So, just domain registration.
isnt the cost extreme expensive? , if it is for covering anything else ok
but .com domains cost here 20euro/2 years
changing registra is easy and cost nothing....
@christos. I am happy to move the registrar. I will check my US registrar for pricing tomorrow.
I opened a ticket to see if I can get for less money. We only have a few days left. :-)
a bit out of topic but
http://www.greatcowbasic.com is affiliated with this project or independed ?
comes very high i google searching
It is both.
The site and domain are owned by Chuck Hellebuyck and were created to bring attention to Great Cow Basic, along with his book and his CHIPINO development board. He registered and still owns the domain.
To the best of my knowledge Chuck had no malicious intent and was a great asset to the community though his magazine articles as well as his advice on the forum.
The Official web site is now GCBASIC.COM mainly because Chuck already owned greatcowbasic.com. A link to gcbasic.com would be welcome but as his site is predating the official site it is probably not mandatory.
What happens to Bed's site? http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/Typesetter/index.php/Home
I realise it is most probably too late now...
But Ionos (1&1) are charging £13 a year for a dot com domain. (And only £1 for the first year.) That doesn't include any "hosting" but if the site is pointed to Sourceforge, that might not matter anyway?
I have been with Ionos (or at least 1&1) for a large number of years for the two domains I hold personally, and they've been pretty good.
I'm sorry for not posting this earlier, but I've been having some major computer problems which has had me formatting the hard drive and re-installing from scratch almost a dozen times in the last month. I'm hoping that I've got the cause of the corruption narrowed down and won't be needing that recovery disk again for some time.