Re: [Fwd: Re: V4 -final touches]

[John A. T. <tu...@la...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Yes, the less "location dependent" the address the better, even if it 
> simply serves as an alias and gets resolved somewhere else.  (Although 
> .info seems unconventional, but big woop.)

that's a long, sad, frustrating story that still angers me every time
I think about it

the short version is that I registered gnuplot.org for the project
several years ago, and it happened to come up for renewal right while
I was in the midst of a cross-country move (yes, there were renewal
warnings from the place I registered - a significant portion of the
anger mentioned above is directed at myself), and a poacher grabbed
it the day it expired and made it a click-through ad site (or whatever
you call it) - please don't even go there, it probably just encourages
him to see traffic on it (though to this day I don't really understand
how it makes him money)

needless to say, several of us tried to convince him to give (or even
sell) it back to us, but, well, let's just say he was a real piece of
work

I actually thought I was going to be able to get it back the last
time it came up for renewal - I was hoping that the traffic had dropped
off so much that he had decided it was no longer worth it - it got down
to within days of expiring, then he renewed it - even worse, as I recall
this time he renewed for 3 years or something

bottom line is that it's gone, and it's my fault

-John Turner
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Continuum Dynamics Group (CCS-2)
  Coupled Multiphysics Team Leader (Acting)