Welcome, Vaughan!
Thanks for the reminder! We've currently got 3 people that have access to the DNS provider and renew when it comes up. Yeah, once it's gone, it's rare to get it back.
We've actually got kclug.org, kclug.com, and kclug.net, but haven't really used the .net and .com.
Chris
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026, at 08:53, vaughan.schmidt@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, new KCLUG list member here.
I signed up after the KCLUG got a shout out on Garmin's Linux Users Slack channel earlier in the week.
Anyways:
I saw the recent discussion on hosting, and a couple of the comments about single points of failure / 1 contact person made me think to chime in here:
Make sure you folks have a good handle on who owns the domain itself, and ideally find a way to mitigate single point of failure there.
I've been a member of UCLUG (Upstate Carolina LUG, Greenville SC) for probably 20 years, but have been remote since I moved out of state ~11 years ago. Looks like UCLUG domain name itself just got poached and lost when it was not promptly renewed.
I haven't kept up with the very latest, but a lot of the original old guard in that UCLUG have become less active as they've entered retirement, shifted focus, whatever. Aomewhere along the line, the ball got dropped.
I did check whois for kclug, and it looks like it is right in the middle of a renewal. Registrant is hidden, but hopefully its one of you.
Cheers, and hope to make it to a meeting at some point, -Vaughan *___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___**___*__ KCLUG mailing list -- kclug@kclug.org To unsubscribe send an email to kclug-leave@kclug.org https://kclug.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/kclug.kclug.org/