[Xymon] xymon.org cloudFlare is expired

[Josh Luthman]

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 Størner 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
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