NBA Live Domain

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The NBA Live Domain (also known as the NLD) was an NBA Live website created, owned and operated by current NBA Live Series Center webmaster Andrew Begley. It began as a small collection of NBA Live related pages hosted at Yahoo! Geocities in mid 1998 and remained operational until December 2001 when it was closed and most of its content absorbed into the NLSC. It was originally a hub for Andrew's roster patches and the works of other occasional contributors but following Andrew's appointment as the NLSC's new webmaster in August 2001 the NLD server as more of an "editor's choice" site for patches until its closure.

Opening

The site was created in mid 1998 as a small collection of pages with limited NBA Live content, including some of Andrew's early patches for NBA Live 95 and NBA Live 96. With occasional contributions from Andrew's cousin Clinton, the website underwent several name changes including AC Patches and AC Domain before finally adopting the NBA Live Domain moniker.

Features & Content

Throughout its existence, the NLD continued to host Andrew's NBA Live patches and later the works of some occasional contributors. The site also provided various NBA Live related articles including hints, tips and strategy guides as well as information on each game in the series. The NLD also featured two weekly articles, the Midweek Patch Report and Webmaster News, both written by Andrew. The Midweek Patch Report was a weekly update on projects that Andrew was working on at the time and later included notes about other recent file additions to the site. Webmaster News mostly contained news of planned additions and site improvements as well as serving as somewhat of an editorial. Both articles were featured on the NLSC after Andrew took over webmaster duties from Tim Tschirner and continued to run until the NLD's closure.

Relationship with the NLSC

The NLD was heavily inspired by the NBA Live Series Center (especially its later designs and content) and maintained a cordial relationship with the larger NLSC, which would post news articles on behalf of the NLD and featured Andrew's patches in its Downloads database. The NLSC would eventually absorb the NLD.

Relationship with NBA Live Stuff

The site also maintained an affiliation with NBA Live Stuff (later nbalive.org, now nbavg.org). The two sites shared resources and posted announcements on each other's behalf.

Closure

The NBA Live Domain officially closed on December 29th, 2001 so that more focus could be placed on the NBA Live Series Center. The goodbye post was the site's 596th consecutive update, a streak that would be beaten by the NLSC with its 597th consecutive update on August 18th, 2008. One further update was made on February 18th, 2002 to address the issue of an imitation NBA Live Domain website that claimed to be an endorsed continuation of the original site. The dispute was quickly settled and both the imitation website and the original NBA Live Domain were taken down shortly after.