AIDA old site still running?

[Simos]

I know there is some history behind this but I was hoping that by now aida-international.org (the old AIDA site) would have been taken down.

I was looking up some information and everything seemed out of date, then I realised that I ended up from google to the old AIDA site.

Unless I am missing something, could I kindly ask whoever is the administrator for that site to take it down? It's confusing for all....

Thanks

 

[Simos]

Just realised that aida-international.org has been redirected to aidainternational.org - unfortunately it wasn't done properly so the 'inner' pages still work and come up in google e.g. http://www.aida-international.org/aspportal1/code/page.asp?sType=wr&CountryID=4&actID=3&ObjectID=136

Hope this helps to sort it out. Might be just easier to take the site down and just do a DNS redirect (i.e. set up aida-international.org as a CNAME for aidainternational.org) or if there are SEO considerations etc just do a permanent re-direct on all pages of the old site to the homepage of the new one...

 

[CEngelbrecht]

They may be keeping it online as an archive for some data. Some stuff from the old site have yet to be transformed onto the new site, eg. the history of world records.

 

[mermaidgirl]

From what I understand ;we cannot take it down because it is managed by someone else. I do think we need to transfer the history of the records, though. Some people have asked about that.
Carla
Aida Media/PR

 

[Simos]

From what I understand ;we cannot take it down because it is managed by someone else. I do think we need to transfer the history of the records, though. Some people have asked about that.
Carla
Aida Media/PR

If by 'someone else' you mean Bill Stromberg, then you are right. Bill is the administrator but AIDA International is also on the register as the organisation:

Aida-International.org - AIDA International

I don't remember why exactly the domain had to be changed, nor do I care to dig into the past and since the top level domain redirects to the current AIDA site I am assuming there is no issue with cooperation anymore.

It can be confusing though as out of date information from the old site still comes up as the first result in google eg try searching for 'AIDA regulations' - sooner or later it's bound to cause some confusion.