Re: Domain lnx-bbc.org has been lost
The lnx-bbc mini distribution <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Feb 2008 02:19:29 -0800
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Quoting Mike McCarty ([email protected]): > Rick Moen wrote: > > [...] > > >caught napping on the domain registration. Sadly, lnx-bbc.org expired > >and was snapped up by squatters, who have one of those "search engine" > >pages on it. Please disable all hyperlinks to the traditional URLs, > >so as to not feed them any hits. > > It appears that the web pages themselves have not been updated > not to point to the lnx-bbc.org domain. Nick, _who_ has edit access to those pages? Would you like me to do it? > >Duncan still owns lnx-bbc.{net|com}, and the Web pages are accessible > >via http://lnx-bbc.com/, thanks to hosting from T.R. Fullhart. > > It appears that lnx-bbc.net domain has been snapped up as well. Yes, indeed. I've meanwhile added lnx-bbc.com to my list of domains whose expiration status I monitor. (See: http://linuxgazette.net/142/moen.html), so I'll be in a position to prevent the same occurring to it. > I asked last May whether any progress were being made, and I have > not gotten a reply. Is LNX-BBC actually still alive? I'm afraid I'm not personally in a position to know. Last I heard, Paul Gray <[email protected]> (Cc'd) had done the most, most recently.