Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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
> > <anthony@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 <stefanha@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?

Stefan