- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:20:12 +0200
- To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, opensrs@namespace4you.com, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
Hi Richard, I just did a 'whois dbpedia.org' and noticed: Domain ID:D136939068-LROR Domain Name:DBPEDIA.ORG Created On:10-Jan-2007 15:27:14 UTC Last Updated On:04-Jan-2008 05:11:30 UTC Expiration Date:10-Jan-2009 15:27:14 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED Registrant ID:tu4DT2OoBewlMxXh Registrant Name:Richard Cyganiak Registrant Organization:Richard Cyganiak The idea of such a cool RDF namespace having only 6 months left on the DNS registration gives me the worries. We had a similar thing with the Creative Commons RDF namespace a while back - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2007Feb/0041.html If you could add another 5-10 years to the DNS registration I'd sleep easier at night. If the fees are an issue I'm sure there are plenty people and orgs who'd help out there. Let me stress I'm not suggesting that this domain is actually at risk. Just that the not-at-risk-ness isn't readily evident from a quick look in the DNS. Those in the know are probably confident this is all in hand, but as the SW gets bigger I suspect we ought to establish practices such as "vocabularies that seek global adoption should always have 5+ years on their DNS registries". cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
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