--- Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree with Walter. The person who takes care of this needs to have complete power to make any technical decisions immediately. I personally manage 15+ domains and it's a PITA when something needs to be done ASAP and I have to ask for permission.
We could have a petty cash PayPal account of say $3000 that such an admin and a few other highly trusted people (esp a developer) could have access to when needed (a domain is about to expire or a server needs to be replaced fast). If I'm still around, I would help provide oversight for that.
As far as who to trust, I suggest Jimbo put a name or two in a hat and have the board pull one of those out.
I think only Walter mentioned an interest in this so I don't see a need for an extra step.
I also suggest that this should be a paid function (as, say, $100/month) because it is such a nightmare.
Managing the 8 or so Wikimedia domains wasn't a pain for me. The only issue was keeping up with yearly expirations, but Jimbo has since paid those for long time periods (that was my impression at least since I no longer have access to my GoDaddy account that holds those domains). So I don't think this is the type of thing that we would have to pay a person for. All IMO.
-- mav
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