jan i wrote:
Just because the dns name expires the site remains active, adressable by ip addr.
It's on shared hosting so one would still have to associate it to 207.7.148.2 in the hosts file or such, but indeed you make an important point; oooforum.org is three things: a domain, a website and content. As discussed earlier, the cleanest way to get the content is to get everything transferred to Apache, since that way we can avoid legal complexities. And indeed the site hosting can expire before or after the domain, so we have no clear deadline.
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.
I personally try to stay out of the domain squatting/reselling/pre-booking business since it's rather unclear to me in general. But here the issue is that indeed this transfer would concern only the oooforum.org domain name, no site and no content. So the best that could come from that is that we simply redirect oooforum.org to our official forum. But I believe that users are mostly concerned with saving the content in some form, so getting oooforum.org this way would not help with users' concerns.
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