2023-09-09 - Project Gemini has officially moved to geminiprotocol.net

As of the posting of this announcement, the new geminiprotocol.net domain is the official home of Project Gemini. If you're reading this, you are already here! Welcome! As per the plan outlined in previous announcements, the CAPCOM aggregator and the SFTP user hosting at gemini.circumlunar.space remain at their old addresses. They are no longer official parts of the project, but are part of what I hope will be a growing range of services provided to Geminispace by various folks in the Circumlunar Space community, not just me. The new geminiprotocol.net domain hosts the protocol specification, all the official documentation, the news feed and project history.

I believe the FAQ, project history and other documents have had all links to and mentions of the old domain name updated to reflect the move, but if you happen to find something I have missed, please let me know!

Redirects will very shortly be put in place for all HTTPS URLs and for all Gemini URLs except the index page. Prominent notices with links to the new address will be put in place at the old address's Gemini index page and main Gopher menu. As such, nobody ought to get lost, and existing links, bookmarks and subscriptions ought not to break. That said, having to follow redirects all the time decreases the perceived responsiveness of the capsule, and makes the new server dependent upon the old server being online. For this reason, I would like to politely but strongly urge anybody and everybody who has published documents (on any protocol!) or software which links to parts of the official project capsule to update those links. This is a big task, because the official capsule is probably the most commonly linked to host in all of Geminispace, and it's inevitable that some links will not be updated. Nevertheless I am hopeful that a relatively small number of links are by far the most frequently followed, and that those can be updated. In the coming days I will be reaching out to people who I think can help make this happen, but please feel extremely free to beat me to the punch!

I appreciate that for some people this probably seems like a needlessly disruptive change for relatively little benefit, but this change is important to me and has been on the cards for a long, long time, and I beg your indulgence!