On 6 August 2015 at 07:49, Marcelo Cavalcante <kalibslack@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi

I was trying to reach gimp.org, and it appears that its domain is

2015-08-06 7:12 GMT-03:00 sciguy <sciguy@vex.net>: parked. I

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have tried different browsers, VPN, and so on, and I get to the same site hosted by Domain Name Sales.

Meanwhile, Google still points to parts of GIMP as though it still exists. Not sure what is going on. Have they been hacked?

The interesting is that they renewed their domain today.

:~ kalib$ whois gimp.org | egrep '(Expiry|Update)' Updated Date: 2015-08-06T08:16:07Z Registry Expiry Date: 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Will probably be soon.

Based on the statuses (e.g. - autoRenewPeriod), nope, they didn't. The registry did that automatically. (There's standard policy about that. See RFC 3915) cbbrowne ~/G/stumpwm> whois gimp.org | egrep '(Date|Server|Domain)' | uniq master Domain Name:GIMP.ORG Domain ID: D1638661-LROR Creation Date: 1997-08-04T04:00:00Z Updated Date: 2015-08-06T08:16:07Z Registry Expiry Date: 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Sponsoring Registrar:Domain.com, LLC (R1915-LROR) WHOIS Server: Domain Status: ok -- http://www.icann.org/epp#ok Domain Status: renewPeriod -- http://www.icann.org/epp#renewPeriod Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod -- http://www.icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod Name Server:NS1.DOTSTER-EXPIRED.DOMAINPARKINGSERVER.NET Name Server:NS2.DOTSTER-EXPIRED.DOMAINPARKINGSERVER.NET Name Server: I wouldn't assume that all will necessarily "be well"; the DNS info is pretty clear about pointing it to a "parking zone". The bit of being in autoRenewPeriod means things are a bit on "autopilot," and I'd kind of expect that the registrar is trying to pester the owner to pay them. If the folk managing the domain have forgotten about it, and email addresses have changed, and such, then perhaps the warnings of Deletion Coming Soon will disappear into the aether. If anyone knows anyone involved (e.g. - perhaps the Shawn Amundson indicated in contact information in WHOIS), it's probably worth giving them a poke soon-ish otherwise the domain may go away. An email address of form "something@gimp.org" won't work, for sure, right now. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

On 6 August 2015 at 12:29, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:

others have noticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10015700

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31852498/gimp-website-appears-to-have-los...

Too bad their mailing list is on the same domain... Hopefully someone there realizes sooner than later.

Ouch. This is an argument in favour of having different parts of services in some different places, particularly email services. Interesting tool I saw pointed at in the discussion; it offers the ability to notify SEVERAL people of impending expiries of domains and SSL certs. http://www.expirify.com/about/ It of course has some clear "and why should I trust this with anything important?" issues. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"