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
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