Transferring kde.gr.jp to KDE e.V.

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Jumpei Ogawa <phanective at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm Jumpei Ogawa from Japanese KDE community.

Hi Jumpei,

>
> In 2013, KDE sysadmin team suggested to transfer legacy Japanese web site
> domain kde.gr.jp to KDE e.V.
> We discontinued discussion because I got busy. Apologies for no response for
> long.

Not a problem.

>
> Recently I discussed with Japanese community members, and decided to ask
> domain transfer.
> If you are still willing to accept transfer, we'd like to transfer it.

That's up to the Board - which i've CC'ed.
If they're happy to accept owning kde.gr.jp as a domain we can sort
out the technical details.

One small detail: I note that *.gr.jp domains have to registered by a
group registered with the Japanese Government.
The KDE e.V. won't be obviously, which may present certain issues - suggestions?

We might need to keep the domain in the hands of the members of KDE
Japan. We can certainly takeover hosting of DNS and the web redirect
though to simplify things there for you.

>
>
> The circumstances
> ============
>
> kde.gr.jp domain is legacy domain for Japanese KDE web site. It has been
> used for Japanese web site by Apr 2013, and now it has migrated to
> jp.kde.org. kde.gr.jp domain is managed and paid by some Japanese community
> members.
>
> While we discuss about web site migration, Ben Cooksley suggested us to
> transfer kde.gr.jp domain to KDE e.V, to prevent loosing control for
> kde.gr.jp by e.g. forgetting payment.
> According to Ben, KDE e.V. will pay for the domain after transfer.
>
> Here's the log of our communication:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317579
> (Only some people have permission to read)
>
>
> Migration Plan
> ==========
>
> Currently kde.gr.jp is used for:
>
> - Redirection to new web site http://jp.kde.org (Redirection server is run
> by Daisuke Kameda, Japanese community lead)
> - @kde.gr.jp Emails (Email server is run by Daisuke too)
>
> So I'm considering following migration plan. How do you think about that?:
>
> 1. kde.gr.jp domain will be transfered to the registrar which KDE e.V.
> currently use, and managed by KDE.org sysadmins.
> 2. DNS server will migrate to KDE.org's DNS server. (Current DNS server is
> run by Daisuke using AWS Route53)
> 3. Redirection web server (kde.gr.jp -> jp.kde.org) will migrate to KDE.org
> infrastructure
> 4. Current Email server won't migrate and keep using current one. (Plz point
> current email server on DNS.)

We can implement 2) and 3) easily enough, and don't need domain
ownership to do so.
Having the mail server still under your control is fine by me, 4) is
of no issue either.

>
>
> Domain ownership
> ===========
>
> Some Japanese community members concerns if you can transfer kde.gr.jp
> domain to JP members again, in case JP members want to manage domain by
> themselves in the future.
>
> Is it possible to transfer kde.gr.jp domain to JP members again, in case it
> is necessary?

The board would need to approve such a transfer.
They can comment more in regards to this as to what obstacles we might
face there.

>
> Best,
> Jumpei

Kind Regards,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin