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> Just grab another (cheap) domain The post explains how they lost their long-held domain name. At least GitHub won't dry up and blow away if you miss a paymen
by fn-mote 3y ago
> Just grab another (cheap) domain
The post explains how they lost their long-held domain name. At least GitHub won't dry up and blow away if you miss a payment.
They're all cheap at the start... and do not necessarily stay that way.
The very end of the post makes it clear this is a temporary situation.
- cxr 3y agowat They didn't lose dillo.org because it suddenly became not cheap. They didn't "lose" it at all—they were never in control of it. The post explains that it lapsed because whoever had it didn't renew, and it wouldn't matter much, because the person who was in charge is no longer involved with Dillo, anyway, which would have made dillo.org a true zombie site. > The very end of the post makes it clear this is a temporary situation There's no such thing when it comes to namespaces. Which is my whole point. If they had grabbed dilloproject.org (or whatever) today, they could continue using that no matter where they're actually hosting the pages in the future. Once you're in somebody else's namespace, though, the only thing you can do is abandon it after adopting a new one and hope that a redirect suffices.