Re: [cp-global] plan for shutting down the iceland domain in may 2027

[Bob Jonkman (bjonkman sobac.com) via <global@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! Thanx for keeping the mailing list alive, even with so little 
activity (I have a few of those myself).

While I'd like to see the cryptoparty.is mailing list migrated, there is 
so little traffic that I doubt it's worth the effort. So I vote "No" to 
migration, if only to end a fellow SysAdmin's suffering.

Also "No" to Matrix. I've never been able to get Matrix working on any 
of my computers - I collect other people's castoff computers, and 
frankenbuild them into old, slow, under-resourced but working computers. 
Most of them haven't been able to run any Matrix graphical clients.

And while I'm running an XMPP server, it's drowning in technical debt 
and I think I'm more likely to shut it down than fix it.

So, thank you for renewing cryptoparty.is, and for giving us all the 
opportunity to discuss its future!

--Bob.



Bob Jonkman <bjonkman@xxxxxxxxx>          Phone: +1-519-635-9413
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On 2026-05-25  16:11 , cryptoparty postmaster (postmaster 
cryptoparty.is) via wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to cancel the domain cryptoparty.is because it is 
> expensive. It was just renewed last week, so we almost one year to 
> migrate away from it.
>
> I have also control of the cryptoparty.org domain, so potentially we 
> could change the mailinglist to run on the .org domain.
>
> Nevertheless, because there is very little activity, I'd like to ask:
> Do we still need this list?
>
> Instead of the mailing list, would it be a good alternative to run a 
> cryptoparty Matrix channel instead? If that makes sense, and if there is 
> agreement, we could announce the channel on this list and a couple of 
> well known people of the cryptoparty community could get admin rights 
> for the channel.
>
> Even if it turns out that the mailing lists are no longer necessary, I'm 
> willing to keep the web page for cryptoparty.org alive.
>
> I think we shouldn't allow anyone to grab .org and host advertising on it.
>
> For the .is web page I'm not sure it's worth the effort. While the 
> domain is still alive during the next 11 months, we could host a page on 
> it that says  "the cryptoparty.is domain will be shut down in May 2027, 
> please link to cryptoparty.org instead" that might be sufficient?
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Best Regards,
> The admin of of cryptparty.org and cryptoparty.is
>
>
> PS: There are a few other low volume mailing lists operating on this 
> domain, they will have to be covered to.
>
>
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