Re: postgresql-archive.org

On 2018-08-22 20:44, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-08-22 16:41:20 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> On 2018-Aug-22, Andres Freund wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I kinda wonder if the postgres community shouldn't do something about
>> > http://www.postgresql-archive.org/.  The name makes it sound somewhat
>> > official, but it doesn't appear to be.  At least I do not know who runs
>> > it. Does somebody else?
>> 
>> It says at the bottom "Hugo at Nabble".
> 
>> I'm not sure what could PGDG possibly do about it?  As I understand we
>> do have a trademark registration in Canada, but is that useful for
>> anything?  According to whois, the registrar is in Bahamas.
> 
> I think just a friendly attempt at a ping would be good.  Should push
> actually come to shove, I don't think the registrar is that relevant,
> we could contact .org etc directly.

If it's useful, this is the kind of things I can probably get done 
fairly
easily. :)

Pascal points out that it might actually be a useful service for some.

Maybe if we start by asking them if they'd be ok to drop the ads?  And 
maybe
encourage them to turn on https too, for user safety?

+ Justin