Re: More gmane.org drama

The gmane.org domain name is up for expiry again on Feb 17 2021; try
again this year?

I'm thinking perhaps we could petition whoever administers the sale to
give the previous owner precedence as gmane.org continues to be an
important piece of public Internet infrastructure; but I have no idea
from the registration record or the linked web pages who is actually in
possession of the domain and/or in charge of the renewal process.

NameSilo has a "request to buy this domain" link but this goes to what
appears to be a third party who wants some money up front; not a great
deal of money, but still.

Thanks for reviving Gmane! I only discovered now. 8-(

Olly Betts <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2020-02-25, Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There's been some further developments:
>>
>> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2020/02/25/the-fate-of-gmane-org/
>
> I'd imagine gmane.org still scores highly on the sort of things SEO
> people crave - I checked one of the sites that claim to measure
> these things (which I won't glorify with the oxygen of publicity)
> and that suggests gmane.org has nearly 5 million incoming links
> from over 13 thousand domains.  Even if that's not accurate, I bet
> many of the regular bidders on these expired domain auctions check
> such sites when decide what to bid on and how much to bid.
>
> It's good it got renewed I guess, but frustrating that the current
> owners seem so unresponsive.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly

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