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Title: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 03:54:09 AM I'm announcing that I'm opening up litecoin.net to be used as a shared domain. I think it is beneficial to group all useful Litecoin services/tools under one domain.
This is not a land grab. If you are not providing a useful service or if you currently don't have the service ready yet, I will not approve the subdomain. If it's a work-in-progress, do PM me and I will let you know. This is first come first served. For example, if you are the first one to provide a mining calculator at calc.litecoin.net, the next mining calculator (even if it's a much better one) will need to use a subdomain that's probably not as easy to remember. There are 2 special domains (possibly more) that will not be first come first served: forum.litecoin.net and wiki.litecoin.net Since these will be seen as the "official" forum and wiki, I would need to be sure that I can trust the operators. So if you are interested in operating the "official" forum or wiki, send me a PM. A few requirements - should be a Litecoin related site... duh! - should be a free service/tool useful to the Litecoin community. businesses should just get their own domain. - should not refer to Litecoin as LiteCoin <- this is my pet peeve :) - should not have other altcoin related services/tools because I am not endorsing any other alt chains. Though Bitcoin is ok. - wallets, exchanges, and pools are not allowed. you should get your own domain. I'm not in a position to deem any site as an official wallet, pool, or exchange. - basically any site that holds users' litecoins are disallowed mainly due to me not wanting to be held responsible if users lose their litecoins for any reason. - use a subdomain name that sort of describes your site. for example, I'm not going to approve awesome.litecoin.net no matter how awesome your site is. - do not claim that your site is the "official" site unless you ok'd it with me. - do not have excessive ads. I realized that ads are useful to help pay for hosting and such, but if your site is filled with ugly flashing ads, I will not approve it. So if you have a service/tool that you would like to serve up at *.litecoin.net, sign up here: http://freedns.afraid.org/subdomain/edit.php?edit_domain_id=813116 Here are some I have in mind: explorer.litecoin.net - block explorer (Someguy123 plans to move abe.liteco.in over) address.litecoin.net - address tools (Greedi plans to move address.liteco.in over) calc.litecoin.net - mining calculator source.litecoin.net - already forwards to GitHub download.litecoin.net - already forwards to GitHub downloads page charts.litecoin.net - price, hashrate, pools charts watch.litecoin.net - something similar to bitcoinwatch.com faucet.litecoin.net - litecoin faucet p2pool.litecoin.net - p2pool node electrum.litecoin.net - Electrum server Please feel free to discuss projects you have in mind. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: someguy123 on July 27, 2012, 04:00:02 AM Thanks coblee.
Note for liteco.in users, this is where things are being migrated to: abe.liteco.in -> explorer.litecoin.net blockchain.liteco.in -> blockchain.litecoin.net Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 04:09:23 AM Thanks coblee. Note for liteco.in users, this is where things are being migrated to: abe.liteco.in -> explorer.litecoin.net liteco.in -> forum.litecoin.net blockchain.liteco.in -> blockchain.litecoin.net hold off on the forum.litecoin.net I haven't decided what to do with that yet. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: 2112 on July 27, 2012, 03:26:14 PM Please add the Litecoin's testnet block explorer to the list of services. This is crucial to allow normal software development. By "normal" I mean that the developers aren't at the same time the owners of whatever they are developing. Currently it seems like the whole Litecoin development community consists of one-person shops.
Also, please run the testnet litecoind at all times. It doesn't have to mine, it is sufficient that it just sits there logged in to the IRC channel and is ready to serve the testnet blockchain. The difficulty on testnet is low enough that anyone who really needs to do some testing can CPU mine the required block on a spare computer. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: LiteBit on July 27, 2012, 05:18:44 PM Sounds great!
How about a projects domain like ours? LiteBit Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tittiez on July 27, 2012, 05:30:05 PM I love it, the more litecoin services the better.
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 06:19:33 PM I updated the OP with a requirement I forgot to mention:
- should be a free service/tool useful to the Litecoin community. businesses should just get their own domain. litecoin.net is shared so that someone creating simple tool like a mining calculator would not have to pay for a their own domain. It is not meant for businesses. Businesses should get their own domain. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 06:20:02 PM Please add the Litecoin's testnet block explorer to the list of services. This is crucial to allow normal software development. By "normal" I mean that the developers aren't at the same time the owners of whatever they are developing. Currently it seems like the whole Litecoin development community consists of one-person shops. Also, please run the testnet litecoind at all times. It doesn't have to mine, it is sufficient that it just sits there logged in to the IRC channel and is ready to serve the testnet blockchain. The difficulty on testnet is low enough that anyone who really needs to do some testing can CPU mine the required block on a spare computer. Yeah, I will see if we can keep a testnet running. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tachikoma on July 27, 2012, 06:23:09 PM Yeah, I will see if we can keep a testnet running. I have a dedicated node running litecoind on testnet. I can run a abe instance from there as well for testnet if needed. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 06:27:26 PM Yeah, I will see if we can keep a testnet running. I have a dedicated node running litecoind on testnet. I can run a abe instance from there as well for testnet if needed. Sure. I think we should keep the explorer for mainnet and testnet separate: explorer.litecoin.net and testnet.litecoin.net If you get that up and running, please request for the subdomain testnet.litecoin.net Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: burnside on July 27, 2012, 06:44:45 PM I have a decent calc up here:
http://ltc.kattare.com/calc.php Planning on expanding it to show weekly/monthly numbers before too long. I also want to take into account the other exchanges rates. I already have network hash rates and difficulty estimates up on another page, would be easy to move those over as well. Is that in-line with what you are looking for on calc.litecoin.net? Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 08:16:14 PM I have a decent calc up here: http://ltc.kattare.com/calc.php Planning on expanding it to show weekly/monthly numbers before too long. I also want to take into account the other exchanges rates. I already have network hash rates and difficulty estimates up on another page, would be easy to move those over as well. Is that in-line with what you are looking for on calc.litecoin.net? Looks good, but it should be a dedicated calculator site and not part of your pool site. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: AndyRossy on July 27, 2012, 09:43:14 PM maybe have dev.litecoin.net for stuff like testnet, git repos, etc, then have
explorer.dev.litecoin.net runs on testnet and *.dev.litecoin.net as dev versions of *.litecoin.net. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 27, 2012, 10:10:57 PM There are a few parties interested in operating forum.litecoin.net
I figure this is a good thread for those people to make their claim for why I should pick them. So if you are interested, post a replay with this information: 1) Who you are: Name, Age, Occupation 2) What have you previously done with Litecoin or Bitcoin 3) Why can you be trusted 4) Where's your forum if it's running right now 5) What forum software are you using and why did you choose that over others 6) How is your forum hosted 7) What are your backup plans Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Simran on July 27, 2012, 10:16:03 PM 1) Who you are: Name, Age, Occupation: Simran Singh, 15, Student.
2) What have you previously done with Litecoin or Bitcoin: Android LTC Miner, and working on an Android LTC Wallet. 3) Why can you be trusted: Because I have no malicious intentions towards anything. 4) Where's your forum if it's running right now: http://LitecoinForums.org 5) What forum software are you using and why did you choose that over others: IPB, because I feel most comfortable with it. 6) How is your forum hosted: Shared hosting. 7) What are your backup plans: Creating a backend forum that is synced with the current one. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: burnside on July 27, 2012, 11:52:47 PM I have a decent calc up here: http://ltc.kattare.com/calc.php Planning on expanding it to show weekly/monthly numbers before too long. I also want to take into account the other exchanges rates. I already have network hash rates and difficulty estimates up on another page, would be easy to move those over as well. Is that in-line with what you are looking for on calc.litecoin.net? Looks good, but it should be a dedicated calculator site and not part of your pool site. Sounds good. I could put domain detection in there easy enough. When it detects the domain as calc.litecoin.net I'd serve up a different header/footer. If you can setup calc.litecoin.net as a cname pointed at ltc.kattare.com, I could do the header/footer work tonight or tomorrow night. Just a thought, it might even make sense to have a litecoin.net header/footer template for everyone to use so it looks like a more homogeneous network. Edit - really quick and dirty example of how the header would change by domain: http://bitcoin.kattare.com/calc.php. Let me know when the cname is in place and I'll plug the vhost configs into the server. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: bitlane on July 27, 2012, 11:57:45 PM There are a few parties interested in operating forum.litecoin.net I figure this is a good thread for those people to make their claim for why I should pick them. Are there any other positions available ? I have always seen myself as an Ambassador of sorts. I have great people skills as well as patience. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 28, 2012, 12:25:19 AM I have a decent calc up here: http://ltc.kattare.com/calc.php Planning on expanding it to show weekly/monthly numbers before too long. I also want to take into account the other exchanges rates. I already have network hash rates and difficulty estimates up on another page, would be easy to move those over as well. Is that in-line with what you are looking for on calc.litecoin.net? Looks good, but it should be a dedicated calculator site and not part of your pool site. Sounds good. I could put domain detection in there easy enough. When it detects the domain as calc.litecoin.net I'd serve up a different header/footer. If you can setup calc.litecoin.net as a cname pointed at ltc.kattare.com, I could do the header/footer work tonight or tomorrow night. Just a thought, it might even make sense to have a litecoin.net header/footer template for everyone to use so it looks like a more homogeneous network. Edit - really quick and dirty example of how the header would change by domain: http://bitcoin.kattare.com/calc.php. Let me know when the cname is in place and I'll plug the vhost configs into the server. Please request a subdomain yourself. See OP. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: bitlane on July 28, 2012, 12:35:30 AM Please request a subdomain yourself. See OP. I would like to request troll.litecoin.net Along with adding myself to the TOP of the list, I would use it as a space to publicly expose and humiliate persistent Litecoin Trolls. If you feel this is a service that would add a certain 'panache' to litecoin.net, please feel free to contact me. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 28, 2012, 12:51:02 AM Please request a subdomain yourself. See OP. I would like to request troll.litecoin.net Along with adding myself to the TOP of the list, I would use it as a space to publicly expose and humiliate persistent Litecoin Trolls. If you feel this is a service that would add a certain 'panache' to litecoin.net, please feel free to contact me. The service has to be useful. If you really have a useful service, apply for the subdomain with afraid.org with the link in the OP. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: bitlane on July 28, 2012, 01:00:18 AM Read the OP moron. I apologize. I am not familiar with the above term. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 28, 2012, 01:05:48 AM I apologize. I am not familiar with the above term. bitlane, I previously enjoyed your posts. That is until you started trolling really hard. I may have to put you on ignore. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: bitlane on July 28, 2012, 01:13:58 AM Here you go: http://troll.litecoin.net bitlane, I previously enjoyed your posts. That is until you started trolling really hard. I may have to put you on ignore. Well, in all fairness, I do not instigate or initiate..... I simply react and/or respond. If referring to me as a 'moron' in your earlier reply to me has had it's desired effect, I commend you for your efforts. If in fact you would rather NOT make this personal, then I would also be open to discussing this further. Thank you for your time, bitlane. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 28, 2012, 01:17:49 AM You did instigate by trolling really hard with the request for troll.litecoin.net. I might have overreacted. So I've retracted it.
Did BCX get to you that much? Please continue to troll his threads. I'm actually trying to do something productive here. Thanks. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: AndyRossy on July 28, 2012, 02:13:45 AM what about mail.litecoin.net, might bring attention to litecoin, then have foo@litecoin.net?
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: bitcoiners on July 28, 2012, 02:16:15 AM what about mail.litecoin.net, might bring attention to litecoin, then have foo@litecoin.net? I'd use it. Edit: I'd also be willing to pay a couple LTC a month for that members/email account. Knowing the ltc will go to pay for hosting and helping the community. Cheers Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: tatsuchan on July 28, 2012, 04:33:21 AM Coblee, do you have a subdomain with LTC services? I don't have time to develop shit, but I'd like to know who is offering what with Litecoins.
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Greedi on July 28, 2012, 05:28:59 AM 1) Greedi, 20, Student as IT-Supporter/Network manager 2) eWallet, Faucet, Pool, Hosted others LTC projects, bring life to Litecoin-dev etc.. 3) i've been here all the time, i'm always available. 4) http://forum.beprivate.info 5) SMF, becuase is easy and nice to work with. 6) right now, on my dev serv, will come on a dedi serv. 7) daily DB/site backup to another serv. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: burnside on July 28, 2012, 07:33:42 AM calc.litecoin.net is up. :D
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Greedi on July 28, 2012, 07:35:25 AM calc.litecoin.net is up. :D nice site :) you should maybe remove the About link ;) Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: burnside on July 28, 2012, 07:41:53 AM bit of work to do still for sure. about page is a little better now.
will spend some time on the css tomorrow. :) Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tachikoma on July 30, 2012, 03:25:13 PM I've setup a testnet explorer on
You can also add this domain to your testnet client with addnode to make sure you are always connected to an other testnet client. I have a few k/hashes working on testnet to generate blocks. I hope this helps others out when developing litecoin related applications. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 30, 2012, 03:58:38 PM I've setup a testnet explorer on http://explorer.testnet.litecoin.net/ (http://explorer.testnet.litecoin.net/). You can also add this domain to your testnet client with addnode to make sure you are always connected to an other testnet client. I have a few k/hashes working on testnet to generate blocks. I hope this helps others out when developing litecoin related applications. Can you rename it to just testnet.litecoin.net? I would prefer not to have 4 levels. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tachikoma on July 30, 2012, 04:12:35 PM That doesn't scale very well though. What would happen if I wanted to run a litecoin testnet faucet? I really prefer scoping services on testnet prefix.
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on July 30, 2012, 05:07:40 PM That doesn't scale very well though. What would happen if I wanted to run a litecoin testnet faucet? I really prefer scoping services on testnet prefix. Then you'd use testnet-faucet.litecoin.net If you want to name this testnet-explorer, that's fine. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tachikoma on July 30, 2012, 05:31:19 PM Changed.
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: coblee on August 04, 2012, 09:47:10 PM I decided to go with Greedi's forum as the official litecoin forum. Here's the link: http://forum.litecoin.net/
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: SaltySpitoon on August 04, 2012, 10:01:30 PM I decided to go with Greedi's forum as the official litecoin forum. Here's the link: http://forum.litecoin.net/ Not that I will question your decision, but the other forums is much better. Its a lot more stable and doesn't have nearly as many issues ( I will be pming greedi about the issues I found with his forum) Its navigation isn't great, and it lacks a great design. That being said, I will be using the official, and hopefully we can get a few things fixed up. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Greedi on August 04, 2012, 10:16:54 PM I decided to go with Greedi's forum as the official litecoin forum. Here's the link: http://forum.litecoin.net/ Not that I will question your decision, but the other forums is much better. Its a lot more stable and doesn't have nearly as many issues ( I will be pming greedi about the issues I found with his forum) Its navigation isn't great, and it lacks a great design. That being said, I will be using the official, and hopefully we can get a few things fixed up. can't wait to get that PM :) Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: DiCE1904 on August 04, 2012, 11:06:21 PM great news!
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: foo on August 04, 2012, 11:24:45 PM I've setup a testnet explorer on It's down...You can also add this domain to your testnet client with addnode to make sure you are always connected to an other testnet client. I have a few k/hashes working on testnet to generate blocks. I hope this helps others out when developing litecoin related applications. Quote <class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'>: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') args = (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') message = '' Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: SaltySpitoon on August 05, 2012, 02:00:04 AM Ok, I think I need to state this, as this is fairly important. Although I said I like the other LTC forum better at this point, I would like to note we really shouldn't be splitting between forums. All LTC forum users need to go to one forum. We don't have enough of a user base that we can afford to split, and its going to be a huge pain in the ass if we are divided this early.
Honestly what we need is another BCX fiasco, it brought us all together. So I say thanks BCX Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: AndyRossy on August 05, 2012, 05:16:21 PM Most people who are involved with LTC are also involved with BTC, I wouldnt be happy having to load 2 forums.
Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Tachikoma on August 07, 2012, 08:23:34 AM I've setup a testnet explorer on It's down...You can also add this domain to your testnet client with addnode to make sure you are always connected to an other testnet client. I have a few k/hashes working on testnet to generate blocks. I hope this helps others out when developing litecoin related applications. Quote <class '_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError'>: (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') args = (2006, 'MySQL server has gone away') message = '' MYSQL + ABE is just totally fubar. I need to reboot the server every few hours or it will just not work. I will make a script to automatically reboot it every few hours. Hopefully that will keep it stable. Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: Come-from-Beyond on August 07, 2012, 08:32:01 AM I'm announcing that I'm opening up litecoin.net to be used as a shared domain. I think it is beneficial to group all useful Litecoin services/tools under one domain. Man, is it a joke? Isn't Litecoin supposed to be a DECENTRALIZED currency/network? PS: No need to answer this question... Title: Re: [ANN] Official Litecoin shared domain litecoin.net Post by: BIT4BRAIN on October 30, 2013, 11:32:56 AM cooperative .com nice work...why not decentralized or not someone needs a free web host and why have 100 of sites vs 1 with 100 people helping!
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