Re: lcdproc.org/com/net domain renewal issues

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Markus Dolze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> I never used the .com domain at all. If this one is dropped, nobody will care I think. The .net would be 'nice to have', but is not essential, too.

Agreed, just one domain would be fine, and .org is preferable.


> If we can raise the ~250 to save the .org domain I would go for it.

It just sticks in my craw to have the domain held ransom like this,
and to actually *pay* the ransom. But I suppose if we can rally to
raise the money somehow, we might as well do it and not leave it to
chance. The total to raise will be $250 plus $14.95 (the web hosting
company's 1-year renewal cost per domain) plus whatever it costs to
renew for a *second* year at another registrar to get the domain back
under our control. I hope nobody is considering GoDaddy (given their
SOPA support awhile ago); I've had good experiences w/Namecheap and
gandi.net. Any others we should consider?

I saw Michael's generous offer of $20 to support this effort (thanks
for that, Michael). It only seems fair that we establish a "donors"
page on the web site (and include the information in the source
distribution's NEWS or ChangeLog file, assuming these are still
distributed :)) for those donors who don't object to being publicly
thanked for their contributions.

Because ultimately this whole problem stemmed from my own lack of
diligence on keeping watch on the domains and pressing the issue
earlier, I'll contribute $50 myself as well; no need to put my name up
in lights for it either -- I'll call it a "dummy" tax :)


> BTW: I've updated the lcdproc.sourceforge.net as well as the homepage link on Sourceforge project's page to point to lcdproc.omnipotent.net.

Thanks.


-- 
William W. Ferrell
Software Engineer
http://willfe.com/ -- [email protected]