Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] mingw.org

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Sunday 31 January 2010 23:40:58 Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> As it's been pointed out on the mingw-users mailing list, the
> mingw.org domain name registration has expired.  Who currently had
> the ownership of the mingw.org domain?

According to `whois', it's still owned by Mumit Khan.

I don't know who attended to the last re-registration, in Jan-2007; I 
assumed that Earnie had dealt with it.  I asked him on Saturday, but 
he doesn't seem to be responding at the moment.

If we wish to maintain the domain [*], here are the issues, as I see 
them:

1) The domain should be owned by the MinGW Project, not by any 
individual, and every administrator of the project should know the 
login details for the registration account.  How do we set about 
acquiring this ownership from Mumit Khan?

2) Since registration is not free, we either need a sponsor, or we 
need to make some other arrangement for funding the registration; it 
certainly would not be fair to ask any individual to fund this on 
behalf of the entire MinGW user community.

[*] We aren't obliged to maintain this domain; we could simply allow 
it to lapse, and continue to use mingw.sourceforge.net instead. It 
may, however, be a problem that we have moved our content off SF's 
servers, to NetworkRedux' hosting service.  Earnie set things up so 
that mingw.sourceforge.net redirects to mingw.org; the details of 
how that is accomplished are way beyond the bounds of my experience, 
but with the expiry of mingw.org, it does mean that mingw.sf.net is 
also unreachable, at the moment.

I'm copying this to the address registered for Mumit Khan, as shown 
in the `whois' info; I hope it is still valid.  Mumit, (or should I 
rather call you Khan?), can you please take whatever steps may be 
necessary, to transfer ownership of the domain to the MinGW Project?

I'm also copying Damien Korzenoski at NetworkRedux; Damien, is there 
any way in which you can assist us to regain control of the 
mingw.org domain?  Or any other advice you can offer?

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Regards,
Keith.