While I have no opinion on what canonical name to use, I'm strongly in favor of taking over godiscussions.com as a secondary domain.

As I see it, the situation is the following:
* Don gave you a db dump of all posts/threads of gd.com which will be imported to L19
* Don offered to transfer the domain
* Don probably won't put in the work to keep gd.com as a working archive over the next years.
* There are links to gd.com threads, both internal and external. And broken links are obviously annoying

From this I conclude that we should take over the domain, and create a script that redirects the old links to the new threads.

To make this possible you have to create a mapping between the ThreadIDs and PostIDs on GD and L19 when you import the threads. This shouldn't be too hard, and as a benefit old links won't break, which IMO is very important.

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Some thing else, though, we probably want to set up the dump into a read-only archived forums. Maybe use that for the old GD.com? That could become too confusing, though, when people go there, unless we have some big banners or info displayed to point people to the fact that it is an archive.

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KGS: schultz [?].

Yep, I think having "this is an archive" would work.

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