On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Aug 31, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> the domain could be re-pointed though ([email protected] is the tech 
>>> contact, but it looks like James Berry is the Admin contact and possibly 
>>> portmgr is the Registrant).
>> 
>> Some years ago, DNS control of the MacPorts domains was moved to Mac OS 
>> Forge.
> 
> the domain registration info says that DNS is provided by Mac OS Forge, but 
> the domain registrant could move that do alternate DNS infrastructure (which 
> is what I was saying).

Oh, I see. Yes, you're right. Still, there's not much difference to the user 
between the server doesn't respond (what we currently have) and a temporary 
server delivering a message stating that the server is temporarily out of 
service. The latter might even have negative consequences, like affecting 
search engine contents or page rankings.



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