Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Use qemu-project.org domain name

[Anthony Liguori]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 07:42:30PM +0200, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Am 10.10.2013 11:39, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>> > qemu.org is held by a third-party and no core community contributor has
>> > access to the DNS configuration.  This leaves the website exposed to
>> > outages due to DNS issues or IP address changes.  For example, if the
>> > web server IP address needs to change we cannot guarantee qemu.org will
>> > point to it!
>> >
>> > The newer qemu-project.org domain name is owned by Anthony Liguori
>> > <address@hidden>.  You can confirm this by querying the whois
>> > information.  Also note that the #qemu IRC channel topic already
>> > references qemu-project.org.
>> >
>> > Short of having a dedicated legal entity to hold the domain name on
>> > behalf of the community, qemu-project.org seems like the safest bet.
>> >
>> > Let's replace references to qemu.org with qemu-project.org.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
>> > ---
>> > This sprang from another email thread where qemu.org URLs were posted.  I
>> > realized that there are still many references in the source tree.
>> >
>>
>> I don't like this change. We should strive to get a transfer of qemu.org
>> from the current owner to some respected legal entity in the open source
>> domain,
>> for example FSFE or FSF.
>
> I have no contact with the current owner of qemu.org and therefore don't
> know if they are willing to transfer it.
>
> Anthony: Any idea?

The current owner is a friend of Fabrice and prefers to hold on to the
domain name.   We are currently discussing the trademark policy with
Fabrice in an attempt to get better ownership/stewardship of these
kinds of things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Stefan