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Apologies

DJ/Fegba,
I’m sorry for deleting your Discord channel. Discord is hard. Apologies to Ham, Necron and United51, also.

I didn’t realize that you gave me admin on entry to the group. In hindsight, I do remember you saying to be very careful. I was just so excited at being invited to a group of savvy cool players, it didn’t sink in while holding a libation in my hand. I will be more mindful in the future. I honestly thought that I was leaving, not deleting, the group.

Site for a site. Although it can never fully replace your original site and time you put into it, please accept this site as my apology. This site securely unites many of your interests to a central launch point and might prove useful, or even a profitable hub, given a chance.

At least take a look at the back end, before you decline, to see the possibilities. Register and I’ll make you Admin. Blue Chip level security is installed and ready to activate, along with a bunch of other stuff. Watch out for random Comic Sans Font!

I had most of this site ready the weekend after I deleted Discord, but ran into quite a few unexpected issues making dj1.tech active. The trials and tribulations are below in the Origin thread. It was quite a learning experience.

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.tech 20/20 Hindsight

Unbeknownst to me, there are different levels of standards for each domain type such as .com vs .tech. The latter is expected to have higher professional standards more prestige, privileges and consequently higher restrictions if any expectations are broken. “.tech” has much higher expectation than “.com”. More hoops to jump through to repair the reputation of .tech.

When I redirected discordishard.com to dj1.tech, it’s recent history was included although I had just cleared the current standing of discordishard.com. Tech domains can not have any associations to smeared .com sites. Not realizing this, on redirection I tainted dj1.tech and the domain was instantly deeply tainted, more so than the redirected .com. Double tainted now.

It took me several weeks to determine this, after the fact. I got frustrated and walked away from publishing both for awhile, lost my energy. Then “My Blip” occurred a few months later. Not until now have I had the time, clarity and energy to repeat the processes once again but with more steps because of the higher standards for .tech.

I had to re-verify dj1.tech with HostGator and Google before being referred to Radix and back to HG for final clearance, verification and hold release. After 3 days and still no site, HG had to go into the A Record and CNAME to correct several entries, several times. I also verified site ownership with a special TXT Record string for Google.

Once corrected and verified with everyone, I set up, verified and installed fresh SSL certs for both sites. Now that the internet is HTTPS only, WordPress and Chrome will not display the site without security.

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discordishard.com

Seeded two DNS servers and now awaiting DNS entries to populate globally, there were some issues acquiring discordishard.com. The previous owner had a bad reputation with Google for posting what is known as “An Attack Page”. Rightfully so, Google blocked the domain when using Chrome with a warning of “Deceptive site Ahead.”

HostGator (HG) messed up the initial DNS in part as a result of this kerfuffle, as they couldn’t get it through their heads that I have never previously had control of this domain, since buying it at the same time as dj1.tech. I had to speak to several people to determine I was a new human owner and not a social engineering deception bot.

Their Malware Department assured me that I was right and the Domain Department was wrong. That I simply need mention that the current HG redirect goes to HG parked page instead of the HG malware page as evidence that the index page is no longer infected with malware.

Once HostGator released the domain, they sent me down Google’s path to release the deceptive tag. I still had to wait 3 additional days, 7 in all, to get full control of the domain.

Once HG cleared it I had to submit through Chrome site information in address bar, two requests to two different Google departments and wait who knows how long after proving many more times that I am still not a robot.

https://discordishard.com