[Cialug] How to retire a domain (was: AAFUGIT)

[Claus]

I had to retire the domain of a non-profit organization as well.  One of 
my personal goals was trying to avoid that the domain is being picked up 
by anyone questionable.  Especially since some outdated document around 
the internet still link to the old domain.

The idea was to make the domain name worthless.  I archived this by 
registering the domain for an additional year but not directing the 
traffic to anywhere.  No notice, no redirects, nothing.  And it did 
work. Nobody picked up the domain name. :)

   Claus

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Todd Walton wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Does anyone have a way to contact member (particularly administrators)
>>> of the AAFUGIT group?
>>>
>>> Additionally, is this group still active at all?
>>
>> According to Zachary Kotlarek the group has become AmesFUG.
>>
> 
> good catch - I think in the interest of resume items, they rebranded as 
> AmesFUG 3-4 years ago and let the domain lapse.  aafugit.org is now a 
> front-end for porn-spam (don't click any of the links, but it's too 
> late, it seems)
> 
> replace aafugit with amesfug for my previous comments
> 
> 
> -barry
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