MinGW, an SPI associate project, and registered owner of the mingw.org internet domain, has, for the last 12 years, benefited from sponsorship by NetworkRedux.com, in respect of both domain name registration, and website hosting. Unfortunately, NetworkRedux.com have now notified us that they will be withdrawing from the website hosting marketplace, and will no longer be acting as a domain registration agent, with effect from December 2020; consequently, we will need to migrate mingw.org to an alternative hosting provider, and we will require the services of an alternative registrar, to maintain the domain name registration.
With respect to hosting of website content, we can readily migrate that to OSDN.net, (where our software downloads are already hosted), but unfortunately, OSDN.net do not offer a domain name registration service, so we will still need to engage the services of an alternative IANA registrar. As the nominated project liaison between MinGW and SPI, I would welcome any advice which SPI may be able to offer, with regard to selection and engagement of a suitable domain name registrar. I am assuming that we are unlikely to be able to find a sponsor, to maintain the zero-cost registration which we have enjoyed with NetworkRedux.com; since MinGW is maintained entirely by volunteers, with no source of funding beyond the donations which are currently held by SPI, on our behalf, in the absence of any sponsored registration, we would, in any case, require the services of SPI to render payment of registration fees, from our existing donations fund balance. -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F
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