Domain name tid.li

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Dear TW community,

Renewal of my domain name tid.li is pending and I do no longer have any plans on using it myself. So this is just a short note to let you know that if anyone else would be interested, I would consider to hand it over or sell it.

At the moment and since the time of registration, tid.li has been the home of my own TW plugins, TW hacks and TW designs. So the domain name has a history connected to TW and nothing else.

Options to consider would be moving things worth keeping online to another domain in my possession or they might stay under their current URLs – that would be to be agreed upon (and influence the pricing).

Running costs for me are CHF 18 per year. Not much, but it sums up over the years …

So if you are interested, let me know. (If no one is interested, I might keep it for another year and make a more detailed plan on how to proceed.)

Kind regards and all the best,
Thomas

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Hi there,

The project could take ownership of the domain but this would require approval.

If we were to do that, I’m completely receptive to any ideas you or other members of the community may have. :slight_smile:

Keiran
Infrastructure Team Leader

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It’s an interesting question of how far the project should go to prevent link rot. The scattered nature of critical plugins and other components perhaps makes things harder.

My inclination would be to preserve the artefacts themselves (perhaps in a GitHub repo), but not to try to preserve the original URLs. I’d be interested in the views of others.

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@jeremyruston …

  1. for the specific domain “tid.li” I see no value in preserving it. It alone does very little work as a TW relevant moniker to protect from name predators;
  2. the “artefacts” – i.e. @telmiger’s work – should be preserved. His stuff is good. Some I still use daily.

TT

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I would love to see the community maintain a backup of any any important editions, themes, plugins, and even sample wikis for posterity. But I don’t have any good idea of the mechanism behind it. Even more, I would like the community to promote useful material. But attempts to do this have failed for lack of ownership, lack of interest, or perhaps even lack of critical skillsets.

Well, if we find a good use, I have an unused one I was just thinking about starting to use but would quite possibly donate to the community. I own the very relevant moniker

https://tiddly.wiki

(At the moment it goes nowhere; I’m trying to revert it from my experimental use. If DNS propagates quickly, you may see a GoDaddy parked domain site there soon.) My original thought was to use it similar to TiddlyHost. I had talked to Simon about it at one point, as I had some suggestions that he thought might be a good idea, but were probably too late to implement in TH. But I am not at all interested in maintaining a site like that. And the domain has just sat for a while.

My recent idea for its use was something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while. I started working on it a few weeks ago, and it’s coming along pretty well. I have a number of wikis that I maintain that are view-only for most users, but which I want a few people to be able to edit. And I want changes for these Node wikis to auto-commit to GitHub fairly frequently. I want to be able to back up specific versions, control auth with logins and/or OAuth, assign it to subdomains I own. Basically, I wanted to automate some of my own workflow. This seemed like a useful enough concept that others might want it to, so I’m trying to build it as a reusable tool. I was thinking that I would use it sites like policy.tiddly.wiki, dtc.tiddly.wiki, chess.tiddly.wiki as the default site, but allow them to eventually be subdomains for other sites, such as policy.rhamschools.org, etc. I would leave other sites that I simply wanted to be able to edit easily from multiple places on whatever.tiddly.wiki. But that is probably a waste of this useful domain.

So if the community has a good use for it before I find myself using and depending on it, I’m more than willing to donate it.

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Great you caught it! FWIW I used to own that domain in the past (Nov. 2018-2023).

I very much agree that moniker is well worth controlling as it is so close to “TiddlyWiki”.

TT

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There is no intention to throw the artefacts away. :slight_smile:

A friendly GitHub user with more knowledge of the tool than I have, was so kind as to archive some of the plugins some time ago: tw5-telmiger-plugins/plugins/telmiger at master · rimi/tw5-telmiger-plugins · GitHub

For the moment, I added a copy of everything to my personal website and redirect to this new address from tid.li. I also told Google about the move so everyone should be able to find at least the entry point here:

Redirection will remain active until early July 2026 when my contract for the tid.li domain name ends.

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