XMPP Service Operators - 2023-02-27

Fwiw, their current CTO, Wido den Hollander, is someone that I used to do business with (many years ago) though his then company. Nothing but good things to tell about that experience.

Slightly concerned about the Gandi acquisition. I have both my mail and domains with them. I'll probably wait to see if anything changes and take it from there, unless there's a larger reason to move that I'm missing.

as long as it's slight no problem

Can you get name registrars that offer 2+ year renewals anymore?

What about name seizures and takedowns? Are there registrars that protect the name owner over legal intervention? ✏

agh, that depends AFAIK on the registry, not on the registrar. Gandi offers it for some domains, but not for others.

(I think I renewed my .net domain for 5y or so last year)

(but I cannot do that for my .name or .de domains I think)

(and that's also nothing new, has been that way since forever)

Oh bottoms

Ah that is the registry, thanks.

I don't see what the problem is with the gandi news. Nothing stands out as glaring to me, maybe i'm just not seeing it?

I havent heard a person saying anything good about the company buying gandi. The opposite in fact

msavoritias, Guus said something good about the current CTO, AIUI.

ack.

Granted, it's been years since I talked to that guy. At the time, I met him in person, when he was running the provider that he had started himself. Nothing but excellent service. I've been a happy customer of that company for years. That company got acquired by Versio recently, which appears to be part of your.online organization, if I interpreted things correctly.

> agh wrote: > Can you get name registrars that offer 2+ year renewals anymore? yes

moparisthebest, AFAICT, "WHOIS privacy" at inwx is an extra service beyond what most registries have nowadays

at least I still see "REDACTED FOR PRIVACY" on my .name domain after updating my details and not ticking the WHOIS Privacy box

possibly "extended privacy"

Isn't that a .de feature anyways?

jonas’: don't want to risk trying it anyway, and by now I'm all migrated to porkbun, hopefully don't need to do that again for another decade (or preferably longer) 🤞

yup, sure

@matrix@mastodon.matrix.org 🔗 https://mastodon.matrix.org/users/matrix/statuses/109937337410727166 - Lots of fun in Brussels today exploring the technical aspects of interoperability in the DMA at the @EU_Commission with @matthew, Cisco, @mozilla, @FAU and Meta. https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/dma/dma-workshops/interoperability-workshop_en and https://webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-workshop-2023-02-27

Unfortunately no XMPP council at the table

apart from the XSF Board of directors, you mean?

jaj: people from the XSF were there in person, and remote, and many of the conversations included XMPP

Oh cool, I didn't see they were present. Very nice to know

The XSF account could also post some lines about it on their social channels I guess, just to use the opportunity...

jaj well it doesnt make sense for them not to be right?

I did a post from joinjabber here: https://indieweb.social/@joinjabber/109938430730718487

msavoritias: I boosted and liked

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