[sf-lug] Bye Bye sf-lug.COM!

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 8/2/19 8:49 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
> Bye Bye sf-lug.COM!
>
> Seeing as hundreds[1] of SF-LUG folks,
> not to mention anyone else on the
> planet, etc., despite quite ample and repeated
> notifications[2][3], couldn't be bothered individually or collectively
> to come up with and pay (which could be paid by anyone) the less than
> $20.00 USD to renew the sf-lug.COM domain,
> and now it's slipped all the way to redeptionPeriod (and is much more
> expensive to revive at this point), I'm presuming sf-lug.COM is DNR
> (and has been brain dead about a month anyway).  So, I'll be removing
> sf-lug.COM infrastructure, with no intention of re-adding it[4][5].
>
> sf-lug.COM <~=2006-12-08-09:05:06Z--~2019-07-04T07:08:41Z RIP[5]
>
> references/footnotes/excerpts:
> 1. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/014286.html
> 2. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/date.html
> 3. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q3/date.html
> 4. :
> $ whois -h whois.joker.com sf-lug.com 2>&1 | egrep '^(Updated 
> Date|Registrar Registration Expiration Date|Domain Status|Name Server):'
> Updated Date: 2019-08-01T07:12:05Z
> Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2019-07-02T21:17:46Z
> Domain Status: clientHold https://icann.org/epp#clientHold
> Domain Status: redemptionPeriod https://icann.org/epp#redemptionPeriod
> Name Server: ns.primate.net
> Name Server: ns-26063095-2.joker-unused.com
> Name Server: ns1.linuxmafia.com
> $
> 5. https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sf-lug:resources_etc
>

       .com should be reserved for parties with something to sell,
as a group, rather than moving a few items of gear between ourselves.

         What do we have to sell?

        We are lax in even promoting SF-LUG as a free Linux UG.

         Thanks for your work Michael Paoli.

         Bobbie Sellers