Last december I obtained the fifo.nl domain, as a going-away present from my former boss. This made the fifo.sh domain obsolete, which was only ever used because the .nl was taken. The fact that .sh domains cost about 13 times more than .nl domains made the decision somewhat easier. However quite a few people were used to the fifo.sh name, and would have to be instructed to change their ways. Just removing the domain woudn’t work, it just leads to things like this:
<Punica> is fifonet uit de lucht btw ?
<Punica> ken m nie resolven
As a first step a public notice was posted. Naturally nobody notices public notices, that would be like reading manpages. So I added http-redirects pointing to the new domain, which worked but nobody really noticed the change. Then it became time to post a similar notice via the fifo.sh rss-feeds, which some people noticed. A few days after that I added redirects to funny places which alerted people that something had changed:
<Wiebel> waarom krijg ik shit op de fifo.nl feed?
<Habbie> omdat je de fifo.sh rss feed hebt
<Wiebel> failblog krap
And:
<rqsall> en www.fifo.sh bood ook al geen uitkomst 
<rqsall> kittyhell.com wtf
Finally I needed to find a way communicate the same message for irc.fifo.sh, after some experimenting it turned out that sending ascii-art movies works quite well for most irc-clients. So I took the starwars asciimation, added some custom frames, and presto:
<Fluor> snore, wtf man, met je fifo.sh
<Martin> die irc.fifo.sh is grappig
BDFL – Snore
wat ga je doen met fifonet.org? volgens mij werkt die namelijk nog wel, ga je die uitfaseren net als fifo.sh?
fifonet.org is van habbie, en vooral een stuk goedkoper dan fifo.sh.