Projects losing their ability to run their existing site because money, losing it to <whatever> and significantly losing in visibility e.g. python.org or freebsd.org now advertising spyware or some shit with the historical ranking of a trusted and respected source.
Or these project having to plonk a significant amount of money in paying for their domains rather than <insert thing which is actually useful>.
I run a tiny carpooling site (not for profit) snowpool.org . If they turned around and upped the fees to 3K a year or something, it would basically force me to shut the service down.
This is an incredibly awful move, I'm completely astounded that it was allowed to happen.
masklinn|6 years ago
Or these project having to plonk a significant amount of money in paying for their domains rather than <insert thing which is actually useful>.
patrickdavey|6 years ago
This is an incredibly awful move, I'm completely astounded that it was allowed to happen.
chii|6 years ago
Why not just move to a different domain, and while your old one is still "cheap", do a redirect etc?