On 28 June 2014 14:58, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 15/06/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > >> On 06/14/2014 05:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >>> It seems http://oooforum.org/ is still unresponsive. ... >>> >> Why do you need to hear from Ed before you mirror the data. ... I >> >> did send an email to all of the email accounts that I have for him. If >> he does not respond to that, I will give him a call. When I googled him >> based on name and phone number, I found an obituary that matches >> > > I wasn't considering the possibility of such a sad and tragic event, I > really hope it's another person too. In any case, the site is still > unresponsive/unusable. If we can get, in some way, the oooforum.org > domain transferred to Apache, and a full backup of the content (the > database and the phpbb code, with all mods applied), we can probably move > that forum to Apache with no legal worries (and then we'd use it as an > archive only, and transition users to the official forum). > > Otherwise, everything will be gone in 5 months when oooforum.org expires, > if nobody is going to renew it. > Just because the dns name expires the site remains active, adressable by ip addr.
Getting a domain transferred needs a signature from the current domain owner, whereas we can sign up for it now, and when it becomes available in 5 month we automatically get it. The site itself might expire long before that, I cannot find public records about when that is due. rgds jan I > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
