Greetings all, * Keith Marshall (ke...@users.osdn.me) wrote: > 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.
I've replied to Keith with some thoughts off-list. Thanks, Stephen
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