2016.09.09 12:22 "Re: [Tiff] Fwd: Re: remotesensing.org URLs (http and ftp)", by Dimitri Schoolwerth

On 8 September 2016 at 22:29, Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com> wrote:

On 09/08/2016 10:53 AM, Rick Widmer wrote:

libtiff.info is available. maybe others too.

So is/was libtiff.io (or did the .io fad fade?), but a quick search shows those are a lot more expensive than most other domain extensions.

As the domain seems to be otherwise completely unused by the registrant I can't imagine why they have an interest in keeping it.

I suppose there are parties that don't mind developers going for an older, less secure, libtiff version. Hopefully not libtiff.org though.

I've just paid $76.15 to GoDaddy for their "Buy Domain Service" for libtiff.org to hopefully see what the registrant wants for it.

Ouch. Another entry for the list "Reasons not to use GoDaddy"...

On 9 September 2016 at 14:16, Gary McGath <developer@mcgath.com> wrote:

> There's an "unofficial mirror" at (https://github.com/vadz/libtiff). Its > most recent update is 5 days ago. Is it reliable?

Vadim Zeitlin is, amongst other things, also still the main contributor of wxWidgets and I have zero reason to think he has any bad intentions. I can't vouch for what "git cvsimport" outputs as I have no experience with that.

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> I ask because I've posted on my file-formats blog about the situation > (https://madfileformatscience.garymcgath.com/2016/09/08/libtiff-offline/) and

> would like to mention that as a stopgap link, but I want to make sure > it's OK.

That's a site that I sometimes see in search results. Thank you for that site :-).

Regards,
Dimitri