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Expired/abandoned websites? #192
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As of 2017-03, The website http://hackety-hack.com hosts a shady, unrelated website. Has the domain registration expired?
The alternative website http://www.hackety.com (linked from Wikipedia) shows an Heroku application error. Could it be brought back to life?
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PragTob commentedon Mar 16, 2017
Darn.... yeah it probably expired and nobody renewed it. It could be brought back to life, sure - but that's a question of will and effort. Right now I don't see it happening realistically. It might happen but with a new/revamped website whenever shoes runs hacketyachl but not sure
nuclearsandwich commentedon Mar 16, 2017
What do we think about putting up a static page at hackety.com which gives a bit of oral history on the project and links back to the source repositories for anyone interested?
If that's a route that we want to pursue I can try to make the time over the next week to get something building on GitHub Pages or Netlify or somesuch host.
PragTob commentedon Mar 16, 2017
that sounds like agreat idea @nuclearsandwich ! Thing is, to get it redirecting there and not from the heroku app we'd need to get a hold of @steveklabnik to change the DNS settings - but that should be possible he's just busy often :)
steveklabnik commentedon Mar 16, 2017
I let the domain expire, it's true. With no updates in years, I figured it was finally time to let things go.
I would be happy to redirect DNS/transfer the domains I do have to whoever they need to go to.
PragTob commentedon Mar 16, 2017
Ha magic mentions to magic Steve, cool 👋 🤗 ❤️ 🚀
No bad thing about letting it expire, it really has been dead for a long time... and good to let it go. I like the idea of having a github page for the remaining domain (to maybe revive it at some point although I'll only believe it when I see it). So, I guess candidates to transfer it to would be @nuclearsandwich or me
Thanks @steveklabnik
Pinging @jasonrclark as he might also be interested :)
nuclearsandwich commentedon Mar 16, 2017
I'd be glad to take on the administrative load of owning the domain (what's one more to a domain hoarder 😁) as long as I can find a way to make sure that @PragTob can also get at the DNS configuration, and ideally domain ownership as well, so that there's at least a couple folks within the project with full access in case I am replaced by an evil twin.
jasonrclark commentedon Mar 18, 2017
Would be totally interested to make sure the domain's somewhere Shoes folk can access it, but also comfortable if @PragTob and @nuclearsandwich got it covered.
nuclearsandwich commentedon Mar 18, 2017
Exploring a few avenues to share domain administration. @jasonrclark and @PragTob are the emails on your GitHub profile your preferred ones for discussing this?
jasonrclark commentedon Mar 18, 2017
Yes indeed @nuclearsandwich. Thanks!
birdlawexpert commentedon Jun 24, 2018
Sooo....what's the update with this?