[wsfii-discuss] Restoring the wsfii-homepage . . .

[Fred Pook]

Thanks Bjarke for still taking care of the WSFII thought and practicalities.
Hope you find your peace by being "relatively retired" :)

Small nitpicking: can you let the content maintainers of diirwb.net know
that they should update the link to wsfii on the homepage of diirwb to the
new domain-names
 (I actually like wsfii.net better than the old wsfii.org but I guess Jürgen
should decided)

Ciao from Amsterdam!
Fred

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Bjarke Nielsen <bjarke at djurslands.net>wrote:

>  Dear friends related to wsfii.org !
>
> Some time in the spring of this year wsfii.org was not timely renewed, and
> we lost the domain, and then access to the content of the homepage. This
> e-mail explains the circumstances and the situation.
>
> IMPORTANT: For now all the wsfii-content is made available again on
> http://wsfii.info - or if you better like NET, also http://wsfii.networks.
> So please go there for wsfii-content. And you who cared for the content on
> the homepage, please get involved again, and please care for it based on the
> changed names !
>
> EXPLANATION:
>
> By the 19.th of May Jürgen Neumann wrote to me and made me aware that we
> had lost wsfii.org and that it now was used as a commercial site. He asked
> me if we could do anything to make the homepage and it content and links
> work again.
>
> I asked internally in our organisation here on Djursland what had happened,
> and I was told that the domain never were transfered to DIIRWB, so we were
> not informed that it needed to be renewed.
>
> I searched the web and found that the name of the new owner is Stephen
> Wilson, and that he had put it on domain-auction at Sedo.com.
> I signed as user at Sedo.com and bit him 60 $ to buy it back, and in a
> comment explained to him what the name stood for, and that wsfii.org was
> used for a homepage of an international non-commercial loose network of
> volunteers who wants to promote cheap community wireless networks in
> underserved areas of the world. The bits last for a week, so next week I
> gave a bit of 65 $. He turned down the bit and asked for 1900 $.
> Next week I bit 75 $ asking him to sell it back without profit to our
> non-profit initiative. At the same time I bought wsfii.net and wsfii.info,
> and let him know I got each of them for about 17 $, and that we would use
> them instead if necessary, as we didn't have the kind of money he asked for.
> He then asked for 1800 $ while I every week have renewed my bit of 75 $
> until now. This week he has returned my bit asking for 1795 $. - So as he
> seems to think we can meet halfway - and I cannot find about 900 $ at the
> moment -, I found it appropriate to realize the idea to make the
> wsfii-content accessible again at the two new domains wsfii.net and
> wsfii.info, for the time being. So our server-group have now pointed the
> two new domains to the homepage-content, and it seems to work.
> If I get the opportunity to pay the new owner of wsfii.org - on the level
> of 8 or 900 $ - I will do it, but for now I hope we can restore the use of
> the wsfii-homepage based on the new top-domain-names, and I hope those who
> cared for the content will come back and continue to do so. Please write
> back if there seems to be any problems on the homepage.
>
> With warm greeting to all from Bjarke Nielsen
> Founder of the Djursland Computer-support-community,
> of the wireless landscape-networks on Djursland and
> of the Djursland International Institute of Rural Wireless Broadband (
> diirwb.net).
> (but now relatively retired and leaving leadership of organisations to new
> leaders ;-))
>
>
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