On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:42:30PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 10.10.2013 11:39, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: >> > qemu.org is held by a third-party and no core community contributor has >> > access to the DNS configuration. This leaves the website exposed to >> > outages due to DNS issues or IP address changes. For example, if the >> > web server IP address needs to change we cannot guarantee qemu.org will >> > point to it! >> > >> > The newer qemu-project.org domain name is owned by Anthony Liguori >> > <anth...@codemonkey.ws>. You can confirm this by querying the whois >> > information. Also note that the #qemu IRC channel topic already >> > references qemu-project.org. >> > >> > Short of having a dedicated legal entity to hold the domain name on >> > behalf of the community, qemu-project.org seems like the safest bet. >> > >> > Let's replace references to qemu.org with qemu-project.org. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> >> > --- >> > This sprang from another email thread where qemu.org URLs were posted. I >> > realized that there are still many references in the source tree. >> > >> >> I don't like this change. We should strive to get a transfer of qemu.org >> from the current owner to some respected legal entity in the open source >> domain, >> for example FSFE or FSF. > > I have no contact with the current owner of qemu.org and therefore don't > know if they are willing to transfer it. > > Anthony: Any idea?
The current owner is a friend of Fabrice and prefers to hold on to the domain name. We are currently discussing the trademark policy with Fabrice in an attempt to get better ownership/stewardship of these kinds of things. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Stefan
