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[Oliver Falk <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Matti!

It's renewed already since last week. I absolutely agree with you that
keeping the .com domain alive to ensure no malicious attacker takes it, is
probably the best reason to keep it.
It wasn't super expensive, but I'll get back to that offer maybe next year
- really, really(!) appreciate you offering this!!
Oh, I didn't know you're a Gitea maintainer - glad Gitea uses the
Libravatar service! I wish more services would :-)

Cheers,
 Oliver

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On Sun, May 04, 2025 at 15:00:23, techknowlogick <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It’s probably reasonable to renew the .com even if it isn’t being used to
> prevent a malicious user hosting something there, or a squatter putting ads
> on it. For a different open source project I maintain I had to pay several
> thousand dollars to a domain squatter because people thought it was an
> official domain and it occasionally served malicious files through their
> ads. And that was the best case scenario as the squatter was indifferent,
> but if they were motivated they could’ve done some real damage. If there is
> a cost component to not renewing it I’m happy to transfer the cost of
> renewing it for 10 years so this isn’t an issue.
>
> FWIW my motivations in this, other than being a good open-source citizen,
> are that I am a maintainer of Gitea and we use libravatar and so when users
> search what that means I don’t want them to end up on the .com if it
> doesn’t belong to libravatar and due to the fact it’s a .com has more
> “seo-juice”.
>
> Lmk :)
>
> -Matti
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM, Oliver Falk <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <On
> Sun, May 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM, Oliver Falk <<a href=>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Lars!
> I received the reminder as well and I‘m still thinking about renewing it.
> Anyway, appreciate you having an eye on it!
>
> Cheers,
>  Oliver
>
> Lars Kruse < lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am So. 4. Mai 2025 um 13:13:
>
> Hello,
>
> I received a reminder from gandi, that the domain libravatar.com is about
> to
> expire in ten days (2025-05-14).
> The libravatar.org domain was probably renewed for another year
> (2026-05-14).
>
> I guess, this is a conscious decision, i.e. we do not need the .com
> domain?
>
> Personally I have no objections. I just wanted to ensure, that no one is
> caught by surprise.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
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