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

[Michael Paoli]

So, ... I've renewed sf-lug.org.

What of sf-lug.com.?  Don't really have to have it.
sf-lug.org. has been the canonical domain for quite a while.

Anyone want to pay to renew sf-lug.com, or should we let that one go?
I think joker.com, like many registrars, may allow anyone to renew a
non-expired domain.

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> To: SF-LUG <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: sf-lug.com - renew in 2018? (or not?)
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:46:15 -0700

> 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
>>
>> http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2016q1/011587.html