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Finally, 'Karl's Corner' joined weezer.net in spring 2000, doing near continuious updates for the remainder of 2000, documenting the daily efforts to prepare material (and overcome corporate resistance) for the band's planned 3rd album. | Finally, 'Karl's Corner' joined weezer.net in spring 2000, doing near continuious updates for the remainder of 2000, documenting the daily efforts to prepare material (and overcome corporate resistance) for the band's planned 3rd album. | ||
At this time, the weezer.net crew looked into the status of weezer.com, and learned that a random fan had acquired it several years prior and was sitting on the domain, doing nothing with it. After some delicate negotiation (and some pressure from Geffen Records), the stage was set for weezer to formally acquire the domain in January of 2001.<ref>''weezer.com'' (Jan, 2001). "Buh-Bye." [https://web.archive.org/web/20010105185100/http://weezer.com:80/index.html Archived].</ref> Over the course of 2001, Weezer redesigned and relaunched the site to coincide with the Green Album's release, including new or revamped pages for tour info, merchandise store, means of contact, and their mailing list.<ref>''weezer.com'' (Nov, 2001). "Welcome page"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011130172746/http://www.weezer.com/]</ref> | At this time, the weezer.net crew looked into the status of weezer.com, and learned that a random fan had acquired it several years prior and was sitting on the domain, doing nothing with it. After some delicate negotiation (and some pressure from Geffen Records), the stage was set for weezer to formally acquire the domain in January of 2001.<ref>''weezer.com'' (Jan, 2001). "Buh-Bye." [https://web.archive.org/web/20010105185100/http://weezer.com:80/index.html Archived].</ref> | ||
Anuj and Dan (the only remaining original weezer.net partners by this point) agreed to transfer weezer.net's contents to weezer.com, while remaining as co-webmasters with Karl. Inm addition, weezer acquired weezer.net domain, to redirect it to weezer.com. Over the course of 2001, Weezer redesigned and relaunched the site to coincide with the Green Album's release, including new or revamped pages for tour info, merchandise store, means of contact, and their mailing list.<ref>''weezer.com'' (Nov, 2001). "Welcome page"[https://web.archive.org/web/20011130172746/http://www.weezer.com/]</ref> | |||
Also launched at the time of the Green album's release was a message boards section, the first official weezer bboard. | Also launched at the time of the Green album's release was a message boards section, the first official weezer bboard. | ||