ACCD.EDU to ALAMO.EDU

Dear Students/Faculty/Staff:

In April 2009, Alamo Colleges began the process of changing the domain name from ACCD.EDU to ALAMO.EDU. We successfully launched the new domain ( http://alamo.edu ) and email address (username@alamo.edu) in October 2009.

Since October 2009, we have been diligently working with college webmasters and IT professionals to ensure a smooth transition by supporting both ACCD.EDU and ALAMO.EDU. In order to do this, we applied for and received the maximum extension from EDUCAUSE – the governing body for .EDU domain names. The extension allowed us to maintain both domain names for 12 months from our initial registration of ALAMO.EDU with EDUCAUSE on April 12, 2009. We appreciate everyone’s cooperation and patience in making this transition as smooth as possible.

As a result, on or shortly after Monday, April 12, 2010, EDUCAUSE will deactivate the ACCD.EDU domain from Alamo Colleges. Please ensure that all of your external links, bookmarks, and saved Alamo Colleges web pages utilize the ALAMO.EDU domain. In addition, please remind your contacts outside of Alamo Colleges to use the email address ending in ALAMO.EDU when sending email to you. This is extremely important because links will not work and mail will bounce back to senders outside of the colleges.

Please feel free to contact me or your college IT personnel for questions or assistance.

Thank you,
Kenny Patterson
Client Services Manager
Alamo Colleges District ITS