[sf-lug] Bye-bye sf-lug.info., sf-lug.org remains canonical (and sf-lug.com non-canonical alternate)

[Michael Paoli]

So, yes, per earlier communications, we say bye-bye to
sf-lug.info. - something Web.Com / Network Solutions gave us that we didn't
ask for and didn't particularly want anyway.  From my calendar:
2016-09-28 sf-lug.info domain expires 2016-09-28T20:01:47Z
$ (for ns in $(dig -t NS info. +short); do dig +noall +norecurse  
+authority @"$ns" -t ANY sf-lug.info.; done) | sort -u
sf-lug.info.            86400   IN      NS      ns1.sf-lug.info.
sf-lug.info.            86400   IN      NS      ns2.he.net.
sf-lug.info.            86400   IN      NS      ns3.he.net.
sf-lug.info.            86400   IN      NS      ns4.he.net.
sf-lug.info.            86400   IN      NS      ns5.he.net.
$
Okay, so it's not been fully killed yet, but ...
and peeking at whois(1) - it's the regular registrar auto-renew
shenanigans ... they do that effectively upstream, and can
revocably do it ... for a while, ... so they do, ... then they hope,
while they have a (strangle)hold on the domain for a bit, they try to
extort money out of "old" customer, or sell it off at a premium to new ...
but they can only do that for so long ... then they have to either pay up,
or give it up - and they generally do the latter (unless someone else is
beating their doors down for the domain).
And checking the web.com/networksolutions.com account, it shows as
expired, and not set to auto-renew ... so we'll just wait 'em out
and let that one wither on the vine ... then I'll rip out it's bit
of infrastructure (DNS slaves and master, web virtual name hosting,
SSL certs I'll just (not) deal with for [*.]sf-lug.info as those come
up for renewal ... and that'll be 'bout it.
So, ... since it's not (quite) dead yet ... I'll just wait bit longer
and rip out those infrastructure bits a little later (and doesn't hurt
much if they're cleaned up a bit after the domain does it's final bye-bye ...
but do want to clean that out and not leave that cruft around too long).

references/excerpts:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q1/011617.html
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q1/011612.html

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> To: "Jim Stockford" <jim at well.com>
> Cc: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Re: after I get the domain names over to Joker
> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 11:03:32 -0800

> Jim,
>
> and as for sf-lug.info - I think we can quite safely just let that one expire
> 2016-09-28T20:01:47Z, unless you and/or other(s) want to pay to hang  
> onto it to
> merely prevent anyone else from snagging the sf-lug.info domain.