[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] www.tux4kids.com domain seems to belong to squatters again.

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 02:12:37PM -0600, David Bruce wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As of today, it looks like http://www.tux4kids.com no longer points to
> http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org.
> 
> http://www.tux4kids.net still points to our site
> 
> This is something of a problem, as the docs and in-game credits list
> "www.tux4kids.com" as our site.
> 
> While I agree in principle that *.org is the correct tld for us, that
> one isn't available either. Also, non-tech folks tend to assume that
> one's website url is the organization name preceded by "www." and
> followed by ".com".

Weird.  When I go there, I get redirected to alioth.
I did a whois on the domain and see:

Registrant:
   Tux4Kids
   PO Box 57343
   Tucson, Arizona 85732
   United States

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: TUX4KIDS.COM
      Created on: 15-Dec-03
      Expires on: 15-Dec-13
      Last Updated on: 08-Oct-07

   Administrative Contact:
      Hart, Samuel N  sam at bigmannetworks.com
      PO Box 57343
      Tucson, Arizona 85732
      United States
...etc.

So it looks like it's supposed to still be Sam's, and good through 2013.

Confused,

-bill!