“Outpost Gallifrey” Shutting Down

After 13 years as one of the premiere “Doctor Who” information web sites and fan forums on the Internet, “Outpost Gallifrey” will be closing its doors for good on July 31, 2009.

Web-site founder Shaun Lyons made the announcement on the web site’s forum’s yesterday.

“For many, this will come as an enormous surprise. For some, probably not so much,” he wrote.  “Two years ago, I shut down the day-to-day operations of the Outpost Gallifrey website, retaining its News Page as a continuing entity administered by news editors, as well as the Forum run by a moderator team. But all good things must come to an end, and several months ago, I began planning the eventual shutdown of the website and forum by taking a first step: the cessation of taking paid patron memberships, in order to run down the cash coffers (which I projected could last around five to six months without any additional input from new or renewing members — current patrons were simply extended indefinitely as we announced). At the end of July, any remaining funding (expected to be very little, if any) will be donated to a noted charity, save for costs for the one item that *will* (and actually must) continue to function at gallifreyone.com — the web space for our long-running Doctor Who convention, Gallifrey One, which enters its twenty-first iteration next February.”

Lyons said the domain name will remain in use beyond the cessation of activities on the site and forums for next year’s annual “Gallifrey 21” convention.

To read the full post by Lyons, please go HERE.