Re: MinGW Project WebSite, and Domain Name Registration

Greetings all,

* Keith Marshall (keith(at)users(dot)osdn(dot)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