[SAC] Fwd: foss4g.org EXPIRES December 19th, 2015

[Alex M]

On 09/23/2015 12:57 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:
>> Interesting, but expensive point
> 
> Why expensive? A .org costs me 6 Euros per year. Or am I missing something?
> 
> We could keep communitymapbuilder.org for another year containing just
> a redirect, then let it expire.
> 
> Just an idea,
> Markus
> 

It gets expensive when you have many such sites. Yes it's $13 USD/yr (if
you pay 5 years at a time). If we did that for all such sites, and
including registering all .com and common similar names. We start
talking about hundreds of dollars a year for sites we don't actually
use. I'm more inclined to get .com variants than other things for
protecting namespace.

It can easily become a financial and technical burden (mostly time to
keep track of it all) if we keep all such sites. That savings can
directly be applied to new domains for new projects, which does come up
each year.

This discussion really applies to foss4g####.org which was in use before
2009 ( I think we moved to sub-domains after that ). If people think we
should keep those old names, we can (note foss4g2008.org expired earlier
this month).

What would you redirect communitymapbuilder.org to? Based on Jeff's
statement this hasn't been in use since 2008

Thanks,
Alex