[sf-lug] sf-lug.com - renew in 2018? (or not?)

[Michael Paoli]

Plan ahead :-) ...

So, well noted on my calendar:
2018-05-02 sf-lug.com - will we renew? - domain expires 2018-07-02T21:17:46Z
Don't need to decide now or particularly soon, but ... thinking/planning
ahead and such ...
I notice that (at least at present time) it appears Joker.com
allows non-registrants to pay renewals on non-expired .com
domains.  So ... I'll be sure to cover sf-lug.org (at least if
nobody else does so).  For sf-lug.com ... I needn't be
particularly concerned in the decision ;-) ... as
anyone can check if it's been renewed or not (whois, etc.), and
(essentially) anyone can pay to have it renewed.
I'll figure if y'all want sf-lug.com renewed, someone will
renew it - and before it expires, and if not,
well, I'll presume no one is really that interested in
sf-lug.com and we can do without.  ;-)
What's it cost to renew a non-expired .com on
https://joker.com/ ? - at present it looks like $13.50 USD.

So ... shall be decided in 2018.  :-)

Also, the incremental work to also maintain sf-lug.com "atop"
sf-lug.org is pretty minimal (using same hosting, etc.).
It's mostly just (free) TLS(/"SSL") cert(s), relatively tiny bit of
additional web stuff (notably redirects and cert(s)).
Only other bit really is maintain the registrant data (quite
easy) ... and there is of course the
domain registration renewal costs ... at least for someone.  ;-)

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: sf-lug.org remains canonical, thinning of non-canonical  
> sf-lug.com (to [www.]sf-lug.com)
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:58:15 -0700

> So ... I'm going to be doing a bit of thinning (for simplification,
> etc.) of [www.]sf-lug.com - which redirects to the canonical
> www.sf-lug.org anyway,
> notably dropping DNS (and related dependencies thereupon)
> for all sf-lug.com except for [www.]sf-lug.com. (and excepting
> anything that is needed specifically to support those).
>
> Whether or not we wish to keep the sf-lug.com. domain is a question we
> can revisit each time renewal for sf-lug.com starts to approach ...
> no rush at present, since currently that doesn't expire until:
> 2018-07-02T21:17:46Z
> So ... can probably revisit that question around 2018-05--2018-06.
>
>> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
>> To: "Jim Stockford" <jim at well.com>
>> Cc: SF-LUG <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>> Subject: Re: sf-lug.{com,info} --> www.sf-lug.org (canonical)
>> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:09:19 -0800
>
>> I've also similarly set up
>> [www.][ipv6.]sf-lug.com --> www.[ipv6.]sf-lug.org
>>
>> So canonical domain is sf-lug.org, with www.[ipv6.]sf-lug.org for web site.
>>
>>> From: jim <jim at well.com>
>>> Subject: Re: sf-lug.info
>>> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:24:55 +0000
>>
>>>   Thanks. I don't recall creating sf-lug.info, but
>>> a lot has happened, and I've shared the work with
>>> anyone who wanted to chip in and learn or teach.
>>>   I agree that sf-lug.org should be the cannonical
>
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