Migrating from soupault.app to soupault.net
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The website has migrated to a new domain: soupault.net. I plan to eventually let the old soupault.app domain lapse, so please update your links!
When I started Soupault in 2019 I registered soupault.app domain for it.
There was no particular rational reason: Soupault was an application, the .app TLD was fashionable
and looked fitting, so I chose it.
Later I realized that there were more reasons not to use that domain than reasons to use it. First, it's owned by Google, and there are hardly reasons to voluntarily fund a company that wants to monopolize the World Wide Web.
Second, that domain acquired a pretty bad reputation due to its use for phishing —
.app is a common file extension for macOS applications, so it came to be used
to trick people into opening links without realizing that what they thought was a file extension
is in fact a TLD.
That created a significant backlash against .app, .mov, and .zip; and many security scanners
are biased against those TLDs — I'd say, rightfully so.
So, I registered soupault.net and set up a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one.
I plan to keep soupault.app active for about a year to prevent link rot,
but if you have links to soupault.app on your websites, please update them with the new domain
when you have a chance.