Maybe some sort of website that lists the places where you're actually active?

Sad to see it go. It was one of the first places I saw on the fandom, along Reptile-Universum, Yiffstar, and VCL. Loved your early art, and it played a significant part on the stuff I like today!

A redirect site would definitely work for now. Especially when that will give people easy access to important journals like commission updates and such

Yes definetly repost those images on FA, IB, Rabbit Valley. it would be a shame for it to just be forgoten.

If you don’t keep the site definitely repost the pictures here on this site.

There’s a lot of stuff there that’s not here.

Make it a plushy so I can cuddle it?

Have a square lill pillow of the home page, hehehe

OMFG that's adorable :D

real shame to see it go, but times do change, i'd set it to redirect to current media for now while you decide.

A landing page that redirects to all of your accounts sounds like a good idea. I own aaronblackfox.com and I plan on doing something similar.

Your website is what got me into furry, thank you so much <3

:D

❤️❤️❤️

Considering how the site was one of my first introductions to the fandom as a whole, I wouldn't mind a redirect and memorialization of the site.

s'alright I have them on CD-roms

May I humbly suggest an archive site or perhaps compiled into an art CD like you used to do?

Aw, man, this is giving me a tangential nostalgia trip, remembering when YiffCo shut down back before y'all grabbed the domain.

I'll admit I can't remember the last time I actually went to foxxfire.com other than to show other greymuzzles it's still around, but still gonna be a bit sad to not be able to do so any more. You're making the right call, of course! Just waxing nostalgic over here. :)

As to ideas, the redirect thing seems great. Could probably also do writeups there. Just keep the whole thing simple, do it in Google Pages or something like that. Be my move, anyhow.

I don't really have an idea on what you could do with the site, although I do know that one of my earliest memories of the fandom was playing around with the very first page and clicking a certain area over and over again ^^;;

I do hope you can find some way to keep the domain and maybe even make great use of it.

I'm a furry business chat, and several artists there are using a service called https://carrd.co to make a free and basic site. Apparently it's highly customizable. You could check it out and then redirect your URL to it.

Alternately, I'd probably just redirect it to the site you use the most like your FA or if you have a Patreon.

There are also sites like Linktree where you can list a bunch of links to where to find you. You could redirect your domain to that.

Absolutely keep that domain name if you can. If possible, you can always transfer it to a Registrar of your choosing, and manage it from there. Then, you have complete control of what you do with it, as long as you pay the registration fees. Usually, that's not too bad a process, but it can take a couple of days.

As for an actual site? I'd say having at least some sort of landing page, with links to other places where you're at wouldn't be a bad idea. Might also be good to keep an email address set up there, even if it's not doing much more than just forwarding over to your main email.

As for hosting, it's usually $15-20/year for the domain, and somewhere between $5-20/month based on what kind of hosting you get, if you also get hosting.

You should at the very least have somewhere we can buy merch.
I'm thinking a Cox the Fox sheath themed fuzzy beer can holder. Or in his case, maybe the longneck. According to some art, a Nebuchadnezzar of champagne!

If you do wanna keep it, Guppy and I may be able to help with hosting.. Feel free to reach out!

The problem isn't that I don't want to host it, it's that I got all my domains back in the day through a backdoor with a friend who had a registrar. Said friend retired and now the fate of the domains is very difficult to control. I've been trying to get them unlocked for transfer for years.

Oh, ick. :P Yeah, I've lost a domain through a shitty registrar, it's no fun.

Ah, gotcha! ^___^;

Awww thanks, that's damn sweet of y'all :)

Its a shame to see that sight go, that was one of the first furry sights I had come across way back in the early 00's

But totally understandable why though and some times you just gotta look after what works best for ya. ^.=.^

Just a giant picture of your fox dick and when you click it it's replaced by the same dick but jizzing.

Time passes and times change.
FoxxFire.com was my very-first regular furry exploration site, almost twenty years ago now I guess.
Here's hoping Our Host can maximize this opportunity.

it'd be nice if you can archive the old site somehow to look back on an early internet thing... back when Furnation, Geocities and such once thrived

but yeah, hold onto that site, or else people may buy it for cheap and squat on it holding it hostage until someone pays for their ludicrous high prices

Digital business card

It's such a shame, I was delighted to stumble upon it a year ago to see it still operational after all these years. Nostalgia! <3

Redirect or turf/sell it.

Yeah.. sad to see it go. Enjoyed exploring it nearly 2 decades ago. But you do have other places you post, so it's really about what best works for you, as an artist. Redirecting it might not be bad, but it can also be a character ref display if that works better for you?

But yeah, the internet has changed plenty since '94. You might have to just attach the domain to something like a WordPress or SquareSpace. Dunno if that's an option, though. They at least have website templates. Don't know how well they handle DDoS attacks.

Wow. I would say that if you wanted to keep the domain name, that you do a re-direct, at least until you have real plans for the site

Character write-ups would be awesome to see, but I'd love to see any of those suggestions! ^^

Spoogy adult art? I´m there! And surprisingly still I am after all these years.

It´s a shame to see the page go, good thing some people have been making captures at https://web.archive.org/web/2021082...../foxxfire.com/ so at least it will not be gone forever if you´re able to just keep the domain.

I like the idea of a page that lists all the other sites you're active. Maybe it should have a basic "about me" too - sort of like what's currently on the "Personal" page.

I think you should definitely keep the domain, if for no other reason than this:

Creation Date: 2000-03-05T00:48:37

:D It *appears* to be through Tucows, but there's also another company name on it. It should cost roughly $15 a year, plus or minus, to keep the domain name.

Another argument for keeping it is that some of your older art has it on the image. If the domain is still there, critters can still find you that way.

The hosting behind it varies more. If it's only going to be a couple of static pages, you can probably get suitable hosting for maybe $5 a month. Look carefully when shopping, though... a lot of the cheaper companies offer things like "$5 a month for a year, then it auto-renews for $20 a month".

Definitely make a backup of everything that's there, buggy gallery scripts and all, before you tear down what you have. If the older images on your site aren't on your FA and other sites, you might be able to use something like PostyBirb to upload them. (You'd have to learn PostyBirb, and write descriptions and tags for the images, but it'd be a way to preserve them.)

Why not just find someone to update the code for maybe triad for artwork?

I don't know enough about sites to give an answer, but when it comes to mirroring artwork be aware if sites are editing the files. Twitter for example mangles many images. FurAffinity likes to convert PNGs or even modestly high resolution JPGs to lower resolution JPGs while at the same time not renaming the file and leaving it .png (unless they fixed it within the last few years).

Uploading and then re-uploading an existing image is an acknowledged workaround that preserves full image quality on FA until they get around to modernizing the file limits. If you already knew all that, never mind!

I'm glad I randomly clicked my journals, since I've been too crazy with the follow buttons over the years and rarely read them. I can hardly believe it's been like 20 years ago since ordering your art CD.

Writeups of characters sounds like a great idea. And whatever happened to the stories you wrote? I haven't been able to find them anywhere.

not foxx fire nooo

Oh man, that thing's been around forever! Always sad to see a part of the old furry 'net go poof =/

Sad, that was a favorite website of mine. Personally, I'd share an archive of it offline. Maybe you could even sell it to throw some coin at Tursi for their work over the years, or as a fundraiser for your future inevitable health costs.

Getting some webspace is never a problem and there are some very easy gallery scripts and whatnot that're free. For a registrar I would recommend Namecheap. Maybe their support-department can help you figure out the necessary steps to take, where to get the info required and so on. I don't know about ICANN but others have some alternate / emergency way to get the domains if the registrar isn't helping.

In any case, I'd suggest NEVER letting go of a domain that old and known!

Domain could lead to something like a linktr.ee or similar (even self-hosted) or a simple CMS with all the text content, with the gallery either as a simple one in a subfolder or put into a Google Drive or something.

Hit me up if you need any help with something.

OH yeah no, i'm holding onto that domain name tooth and claw.
Or, you know, a check for a million dollars pops up.. :3

That's the spirit. Did you make any progress with getting the domain to another registrar and the other stuff?

It's furry history now. I hate to see it go.

One thing the site has over other sites, it loads 10 times faster then the current social networking sites.