Quoting Michael P....
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Ah, ... that's the non-canonical - berkeleylug.ORG
... yeah, I don't recall who paid for that one last time around,
wasn't me. Anyway, anyone who wants to pay for that and does, great,
we continue to have it. If nobody does so, we drop it.
I have covered and will continue to cover BerkeleyLUG.COM - which is
the canonical - and always has been.
I consider BerkeleyLUG.ORG extra overhead expense non-essential luxury.
So, anyway, anyone else wants to pay for it great, we keep it, if not, it
goes bye-bye.
And yes, if one searches, etc. almost nothing shows up under
BerkeleyLUG.ORG - it just redirects to the .com.
Heck, I can only find one search engine "hit" under the .org,
and not even sure why that shows at all, as it's just the
very top level and redirects to the .com [anyway].
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When this discussion came up on the mailing-list on March 28th and 29th
of last year in the posts 'Wither berkeleylug.ORG - keep/drop decide
by: 2019-04-17T04:39:28Z - currently expires 2019-05-17T04:39:28Z' +and+
'Re: BerkeleyLUG domains, "hosting", etc.'....., someone went ahead and
pitched-in funds to keep both BerkeleyLUG.COM +and+ BerkeleyLUG.ORG
around.
So unless someone can bring a particularly compelling reason *
why*
BerkeleyLUG.ORG should be kept around -- e.g., a sufficiently high
chance that another entity cybersquats BerkeleyLUG.ORG with the intent
to more easily divert visitors away from BerkeleyLUG.COM and/or to
carry out "questionable" actions to BerkeleyLUG.COM itself? -- and/or
wishes to [continue to] pony up some bucks to keep BerkeleyLUG.ORG
separately registered, I fully agree with Michael P that there is no
real need for it, IMHO.
And continued Thanks of Appreciation definitely go to Michael P for
continually supporting, maintaining, and otherwise administrating
BerkeleyLUG.COM up to the present :-D
Further relevantly quoting Michael P...
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Might be a bit of fluke of history or whatever, but the .COM came firstfor BerkeleyLUG, and [www.]BerkeleyLUG.COM has always been and still is
the canonical. Heck, I think it was only a couple years back or so I even
learned that BerkeleyLUG also had the BerkeleyLUG.ORG domain - was a
surprise to me - and I think most others too.
Yeah, I know, .org is typically more traditional for a [L]UG,
but BerkeleyLUG's history being what it is (and also many search engines
and browsers more so defaulting to .com in preference over .org),
it was decided we'd keep .com as the canonical, and .org was ... well
optional. Thus far that decision hasn't changed. And anyone that wants
to pay for (or chip in to pay for) the non-essential non-canonical
.org, is free to do so.
And, I believe, like most registrars, gandi.net will let *anyone* pay to
renew a non-expired domain. And one can always check status with whois(1),
and coordinate on-list to avoid any double/over payment/renewal.
Anyway, thanks to whomever renewed it last year (sorry, I don't remember
who it was). And thanks in advance to anyone who does so (or so again)
for this year. But hey, not required, not essential. But if folk(s) wish to keep it
around, and are willing to put a few bucks to it (I think it works out to roughly
$14.00 USD/yr.), certainly feel free to do so.
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-Aaron