We discussed this on our call today, general thinking is.
- To use the domain … domain MUST be available on the Internet.
- A Discourse site must be reachable on that IP. (check regularly, if not available for a week, disable)
Then if for any reason a high value name like cars.discourse.diy no longer hosts a Discourse site, we reserve the rights to pull it back and deactivate from DNS.
Any site that was once active (eg 20 topics) will no not be reused, so becoming inactive for a long period of time will simply disable it. And allow original Discourse ID owner to re-enable manually.
We are sorting out nits with these rules, but the intent is that these domains are for active Discourse sites available on the Internet. Do not use these on an Intranet.