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illinois.edu Project and the College of Education
The University's "illinois.edu" project has significant implications for many of us in the college. We have made and will be making a series of changes to web and email services at different times throughout the year. Because these changes aren't happening at the same time, you may be confused about what URLs and addresses to use and when.
Below is a brief summary of the email addresses and URLs you can use and should be using, along with some estimates of when future changes will take place.
Last updated: July 1, 2008
Available now |
Current Recommended Usage |
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Your Email Address |
<netid>@illinois.edu OR <netid>@uiuc.edu |
<netid>@illinois.edu There is no rush to change your address, but all CITES services as of mid-June support the use of @illinois.edu for both your incoming and outgoing email. Further, as of early June, the default address for new Express users is @illinois.edu. Further yet, users as of August will be represented in PH as <netid>@illinois.edu. |
College Email Addresses |
<accountname>@education.illinois.edu OR <accountname>@ed.uiuc.edu |
<accountname>@education.illinois.edu Caveat: If you have a web site that uses an ed.uiuc.edu-based URL, you might consider continuing to use the @ed.uiuc.edu version for consistency...then change both when you are able to update your web site. See "Custom Web Site Domains" below for estimate of when hostnames based on new domain may be available.) |
Primary College Web Site Domain |
education.illinois.edu OR any of the following: www.education.illinois.edu |
http://education.illinois.edu It is expected that URLs based on www.ed.uiuc.edu (and even the discouraged www.ed.illinois.edu) will be valid indefinitely. See NOTE below. |
Custom Web Site Domains |
<custom>.ed.uiuc.edu NOTE: Custom hostnames based on education.illinois.edu (aside from www.education.illinois.edu) are expected to be available to us sometime after Nov 1 2008. |
<custom>.ed.uiuc.edu For example, learn.ed.uiuc.edu. Continue to use your current ed.uiuc.edu-based hostname until you are able to register your site in the new domain. (See NOTE below.) |
NOTE: The College's domain of the future is education.illinois.edu, not ed.illinois.edu. While one hostname, www.ed.illinois.edu, has been registered with that domain for URLs, the use of ed.illinois.edu anywhere is discouraged in favor of education.illinois.edu.
Also reference the campus illinois.edu Domain Project site including resources such as a FAQ on the topic.
Below is a rough timeline of changes that are relevant to members of the College of Education community.
| Date | Change |
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Fall 2007 |
www.education.illinois.edu registered for web server. The use of this domain was allowed because of the web site's relevance to the Brilliant Futures campaign. The registration of illinois.edu-based hostnames other than those for the web site were not allowed. |
May 13, 2008 |
CITES supports the use of <netid>@illinois.edu for incoming email addresses for all CITES email services (@uiuc.edu relays, Exchange, Express). CITES Express service supports configuring your Express account to use <netid>@illinois.edu in From field for outgoing mail. Exchange unofficially supports using @illinois.edu for outgoing email via authenticated SMTP. |
June 11, 2008 |
CITES makes @illinois.edu address the default for new users on Express email services. |
June 13, 2008 |
CITES makes <netid>@illinois.edu the default entry in PH system. CITES' listserv service changes from listserv.uiuc.edu to listserv.illinois.edu |
| June 16, 2008 | CITES Exchange service officially announces support for @illinois.edu in From field for Outlook users. |
July 8, 2008 |
College of Education registers education.illinois.edu with CITES for departmental email service. All email addresses are now fully functional at both domains indefinitely. For example, admissions@ed.uiuc.edu is now fully functional at admissions@education.illinois.edu. |
November 1, 2008 |
Public Affairs announced on 10/2/2008 that on November 1, CITES will be permitted
to register any illinois.edu-based hostnames beyond those previously allowed because of their association with the Bright Futures campaign. |
| May 1, 2009 | PHASE 2 BEGINS: Units are expected to start changing all links from uiuc.edu to illinoins.edu in "all web pages". |
| April 30, 2010 | Links referencing secure (SSL-encrypted), uiuc.edu-based web pages should be changed to reference secure, illinois.edu-based web pages. |
| April 30, 2011 | Links referencing any uiuc.edu-based web pages should be changed to reference illinois.edu-based web pages. |