xymon.org cloudFlare is expired
Hi Henrik,
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 09:37:11PM +0100, Henrik Juul St?rner via Xymon wrote:
Does the Xymon team/Henrik/etc have access to xymon.org ? https://xymon.org gives a CloudFlare error.
I had it registered, but since it had never been used I decided to let it expire.
well, "never been used" seems wrong to me. It existed and worked. That alone, plus the fact that people guessed it, sufficed for it being used in the wild.
Additionally many open source folks think that an open source project's website should sport the non-commerical .org TLD instead of .com and as xymon.org worked, they linked to it without thinking further that there might have been a redirect in it.
Luckily I so far only found one occurrence in a Debian package ? which I just fixed.
In my humble opinion, if you ever buy a domain, you're responsible for it not becoming a link spammer farm for more or less forever. Which means that you should probably never let it expire... And yes, that costs a small bit of money.
P.S.: Thanks to Josh for noticing and reporting!
Kind regards, Axel-- PGP: 2FF9CD59612616B5 /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign, http://arc.pasp.de/ Mail: abe at deuxchevaux.org \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and Usenet Mail+Jabber: abe at noone.org X https://axel.beckert.ch/ / \ I love long mails: https://email.is-not-s.ms/
Can we just have xymon.org redirect to xymon.com (http and https)?
You're welcome, Axel :) I was describing the project to someone and it auto loaded a broken preview.
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 4:30?PM Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:
Hi Henrik,
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 09:37:11PM +0100, Henrik Juul St?rner via Xymon wrote:
Does the Xymon team/Henrik/etc have access to xymon.org ? https://xymon.org gives a CloudFlare error.
I had it registered, but since it had never been used I decided to let it expire.
well, "never been used" seems wrong to me. It existed and worked. That alone, plus the fact that people guessed it, sufficed for it being used in the wild.
Additionally many open source folks think that an open source project's website should sport the non-commerical .org TLD instead of .com and as xymon.org worked, they linked to it without thinking further that there might have been a redirect in it.
Luckily I so far only found one occurrence in a Debian package ? which I just fixed.
In my humble opinion, if you ever buy a domain, you're responsible for it not becoming a link spammer farm for more or less forever. Which means that you should probably never let it expire... And yes, that costs a small bit of money.
P.S.: Thanks to Josh for noticing and reporting!
Kind regards, Axel-- PGP: 2FF9CD59612616B5 /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign, http://arc.pasp.de/ Mail: abe at deuxchevaux.org \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and Usenet Mail+Jabber: abe at noone.org X https://axel.beckert.ch/ / \ I love long mails: https://email.is-not-s.ms/
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