From: Chris S. <ir0...@gm...> - 2010-01-31 23:41:07
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Hi All, 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? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org |
From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2010-02-02 20:06:17
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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? -- Regards, Keith. |
From: Chris S. <ir0...@gm...> - 2010-02-03 12:46:38
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> According to `whois', it's still owned by Mumit Khan. Apparently he renewed the domain: Domain ID:D18689654-LROR Domain Name:MINGW.ORG Created On:30-Jan-2000 01:56:24 UTC Last Updated On:31-Jan-2010 01:22:57 UTC Expiration Date:30-Jan-2011 01:56:23 UTC I'm not sure how long it will take to get mingw.org back online. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2010-02-03 22:27:40
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Quoting Chris Sutcliffe <ir0...@gm...>: >> According to `whois', it's still owned by Mumit Khan. > > Apparently he renewed the domain: > > Domain ID:D18689654-LROR > Domain Name:MINGW.ORG > Created On:30-Jan-2000 01:56:24 UTC > Last Updated On:31-Jan-2010 01:22:57 UTC > Expiration Date:30-Jan-2011 01:56:23 UTC > > I'm not sure how long it will take to get mingw.org back online. > It is back online. DNS might need to be updated. -- Earnie |
From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2010-02-03 21:47:34
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> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 13:17:59 Keith Marshall wrote: > > 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? FYI: I've now received this private response from Mumit: > I had tried to turn over the ownership to Earnie Boyd, who > approached me in Feb of 2009. However, due to the ridiculous > policy of transfers at Register.COM, I simply zero'd out my credit > card info, changed the password and gave him access to the > account. I paid for the domain through 2009, but I simply don't > have access to funds any longer (I live and work in Bangladesh). > When the renewal notice came, I sent Earnie a reminder, but have > not heard from him again. As a stopgap measure, if the current > mingw team wants to pay for the renewal till subsequent whatever > action it wants to take, I'm going to help in any way I can. I do recall Earnie having mentioned it; (this in a private communique to myself and Luke Dunstan, dated 19-Feb-2009): > I also now have control of the domain from Mumit Khan. This was to > allow us to modify the DNS. I'll eventually have the information > changed and will set a password that we can all use. That > information will come at a later time. Unfortunately, I can neither recall nor locate any follow up, to provide the information promised "at a later time", and Earnie does not seem to be available to comment, at the moment, (nor have I had any contact with Luke for a long time). > > 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. Assuming we can regain access to the registration account -- I don't even have the login account name -- does anyone have any suggestions for a potential sponsor? Mumit, can you provide me with the same information you passed to Earnie, and if necessary, field a "forgotten password" enquiry [*] on my behalf? [*] FWIW, if I visit register.com, select "log in", and then attempt my own "forgotten user name or password" enquiry, they claim not to have any user name registered for the mingw.org domain, yet they are listed by `whois' as the sponsoring registrar; I don't understand what is going on here. -- Regards, Keith. |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2010-02-04 19:30:00
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Quoting Keith Marshall <kei...@us...>: > > Assuming we can regain access to the registration account -- I don't > even have the login account name -- does anyone have any suggestions > for a potential sponsor? Mumit, can you provide me with the same > information you passed to Earnie, and if necessary, field > a "forgotten password" enquiry [*] on my behalf? > > [*] FWIW, if I visit register.com, select "log in", and then attempt > my own "forgotten user name or password" enquiry, they claim not to > have any user name registered for the mingw.org domain, yet they are > listed by `whois' as the sponsoring registrar; I don't understand > what is going on here. > As I stated yesterday, www.mingw.org is now back. The reason register.com doesn't show you the user name is because it was transferred for some reason to rconnection.com. Mumit's attempts to contact me via email went unnoticed due to the fact that I've had zero time recently to read my private email accounts. I'll work out details for the account management with Keith in private mail. -- Earnie |