The issue is that a volunteer handles all DNS issues at no cost or hassle for Bram. It keeps working year after year. That volunteer takes the technically correct view that vim.org is a domain name and it would be a mistake to expect a domain name to function as a host (a web server).
John On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 4:52:57 AM UTC+11 Martin Tournoij wrote: > This has been mentioned several times, but the maintainer of the DNS > records says it doesn't work. I forgot the details. > Fortunately several browsers handle this if you type "vim.org". > > Neither Firefox not Chromium on my system do this. > > I'm pretty sure this can be made to work, one way or the other, even if > it's just pointing vim.org to a simple HTML page with a meta refresh tag. > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/11259#issuecomment-1264698260>. > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: <vim/vim/issues/11259/[email protected]> > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/bca977fc-3e30-42e9-be3b-0a125466aa7bn%40googlegroups.com.
