Just a bit of background. Some BALUG sites may be impacted soon, but *not*
www.balug.org or balug.org itself.
See:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/002233.html
for *which* sites will (and won't) be impacted
As to some background and why, have a look at:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q3/011330.html
And, for the BALUG specific bits I left out of the above:
> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: vicki (exodus) & GoGrid/Datapipe
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 03:14:08 -0700
> BALUG: what balug has on the virtual machine atop vicki is certainly
> highly useful and convenient, and would be relative pain to be without,
> but we could survive without, at least for a bit, and have in fact
> relocated it (temporarily) elsewhere in past.
>
> What BALUG does *not* have atop the (VM on the) vicki host:
> www.balug.org, and balug.org itself aren't on that host, but other
> sites/subdomains are, e.g. [www.]{archive,wiki}.balug.org, among others.
>
> DNS - only for some subdomains, again not balug.org. itself.
So ... I've completed the transfer of balug.org domain from registrar
Network Solutions / Web.com to gandi.net and also have arranged that
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
also has access "just in case" - thank you Lyz!
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 03:19:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Network Solutions <support(a)networksolutions.com>
> Subject: Registrar Transfer Request Complete
> From: transfer-done(a)gandi.net
> Subject: [GANDI] Final transfer status for the domain BALUG.ORG /
> Rapport final sur le transfert de BALUG.ORG
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 07:21:49 -0000
$ 2>&1 whois -H balug.org | sed -ne
'1,/Registrar/p;/[Ee][Xx][Pp][Ii][Rr]/p' | uniq
Domain Name:BALUG.ORG
Domain ID: D494587-LROR
Creation Date: 1997-09-23T04:00:00Z
Updated Date: 2015-07-18T07:21:47Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z
Sponsoring Registrar:Gandi SAS (R42-LROR)
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