Yup, thanks, well aware of it ... uh ...
Ah, ... that's the non-canonical - berkeleylug.ORG
... yeah, I don't recall who paid for that one last time around,
wasn't me. Anyway, anyone who wants to pay for that and does, great, we
continue to have it. If nobody does so, we drop it.
I have covered and will continue to cover BerkeleyLUG.COM - which is the
canonical - and always has been.
I consider BerkeleyLUG.ORG extra overhead expense non-essential luxury.
So, anyway, anyone else wants to pay for it great, we keep it,
if not, it goes bye-bye.
And yes, if one searches, etc. almost nothing shows up under
BerkeleyLUG.ORG - it just redirects to the .com.
Heck, I can only find one search engine "hit" under the .org,
and not even sure why that shows at all, as it's just the
very top level and redirects to the .com anyawy.
$ curl -I
https://www.berkeleylug.org/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 07:45:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Location:
https://berkeleylug.com/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
$ curl -I
https://berkeleylug.org/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 07:45:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian)
Location:
https://berkeleylug.com/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
$
Might be a bit of fluke of history or whatever, but the .COM came first
for BerkeleyLUG, and [www.]BerkeleyLUG.COM has always been and still is
the canonical. Heck, I think it was only a couple years back or so I even
learned that BerkeleyLUG also had the BerkeleyLUG.ORG domain - was a
surprise to me - and I think most others too.
Yeah, I know, .org is typically more traditional for a [L]UG,
but BerkeleyLUG's history being what it is (and also many search engines
and browsers more so defaulting to .com in preference over .org),
it was decided we'd keep .com as the canonical, and .org was ... well
optional. Thus far that decision hasn't changed. And anyone that wants
to pay for (or chip in to pay for) the non-essential non-canonical
.org, is free to do so.
And, I believe, like most registrars,
gandi.net will let *anyone* pay to
renew a non-expired domain. And one can always check status with whois(1),
and coordinate on-list to avoid any double/over payment/renewal.
Anyway, thanks to whomever renewed it last year (sorry, I don't remember
who it was). And thanks in advance to anyone who does so (or so again)
for this year. But hey, not required, not essential. But if folk(s)
wish to keep it around, and are willing to put a few bucks to it
(I think it works out to roughly $14.00 USD/yr.), certainly feel free to
do so.
And sorry, I probably should've mentioned it earlier on-list (thanks
Rick for the nudge) ... I was almost thinking it was the .com (and was
keeping relatively sharp eye on expiration) ... until I peeked a bit more
carefully, nope, not the canonical .com, "just" the .org.
I should make that more clear to myself on my calendar, so I don't
presume incorrectly which it is without closer careful inspection.