linux.conf.au domain history was: Announcing Everything Open - Conference 2023

On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, at 21:37, Brendan O'Dea via linux-aus wrote:
> 
> linux.conf.au is an identity.  One which even hinged on the crazy
> domain name which was technically not meant to exist, until someone
> managed to talk kre into some kind of leave-pass which allowed us to
> use it, but only around the conference time
> (http://geonic.net/index.php?section=terms&subsection=AU&lang=RU#confau).
> The time restriction appears to have been lifted.

I think I was just doggedly emailing him - I recall quite a lot of to and fro. 
And debugging lots of DNS (which I was unfamiliar with at the time) to satisfy him.

But I did save his response indicating the domain was now active for posterity:

Jon was involved in ensuring the domain would continue to be available for conference use (see: http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/announce/2011-June/000117.html ) 

Cheers,
Anand

From my records:

From:   Robert Elz <[email protected]>
To:     Anand Kumria <wildfire-BA/[email protected]>
cc:     ls.organisers-YbfuJp6tym7X/[email protected], slug-committee-BA/[email protected]
Subject: Re: .conf.au registration 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:42:59 +1000."
             <20000602214259.R4136-YsGK++hbKnIED90C59Pw/[email protected]> 
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2000 04:16:51 +1000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]

    Date:        Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:42:59 +1000
    From:        Anand Kumria <wildfire-BA/[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <20000602214259.R4136-YsGK++hbKnIED90C59Pw/[email protected]>

  | We would like to register the domain linux.conf.au for an upcoming
  | conference that we intend to put on early next Janruary.

This is set up now.  The domain is set to expire on March 1st, 2001.
Please leave the nameservers running until after you have seen the
delegation vanish from here - if that doesn't happen and you want to
close down the nameservers, please send me a reminder.

kre

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