This wasn't really surprising to me* - some months ago, when we discovered that gimpguru.org (no one from GIMP is connected to that site, btw) had expired and taken over by a third-party, we checked and discovered that gimp.org expires on 2015-08-03.
Personally, I firmly believe that useful change only happens when survivable incidents happen, so my only concern was whether gimp.org would be lost immediately it wasn't renewed before that date. But when someone pointed out the grace period, I thought "well, either it is renewed in time, or we will have discussions similar to those that happen right now, might be a good wakeup call".
* but yes, of course I was surprised when I couldn't connect to www.gimp.org anymore, in particular because I had some updates planned for the downloads pages, because I had simply forgotten about it. Dismissing it as a non-issue until something actually happens tneds to cuase this, apparently.
This wasn't really surprising to me* - some months ago, when we discovered that gimpguru.org (no one from GIMP is connected to that site, btw) had expired and taken over by a third-party, we checked and discovered that gimp.org expires on 2015-08-03.
Personally, I firmly believe that useful change only happens when survivable incidents happen, so my only concern was whether gimp.org would be lost immediately it wasn't renewed before that date. But when someone pointed out the grace period, I thought "well, either it is renewed in time, or we will have discussions similar to those that happen right now, might be a good wakeup call".
* but yes, of course I was surprised when I couldn't connect to www.gimp.org anymore, in particular because I had some updates planned for the downloads pages, because I had simply forgotten about it. Dismissing it as a non-issue until something actually happens tneds to cuase this, apparently.