Plugins bundled with Rhythmbox link to for-sale domain (rhythmbox.org has been drop-caught)

[Henry Heino]

Plugins bundled with Rhythmbox including "Cover Art Search", "FM Radio", and "Python Console" still link to http://www.rhythmbox.org/. Although http://www.rhythmbox.org/ used to redirect to https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20200122080148/http://www.rhythmbox.org/), it now redirects to https://www.dropcatch.com/domain/rhythmbox.org, a site that appears to be selling the domain.

Note: This is my first bug report! I apologize for attaching files that aren't relevant -- I'm still figuring this out! Most relevant is the
PNG attatchment, bugReport.png.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: rhythmbox 3.4.4-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jul 11 02:02:53 2020
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-24 (109 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-19 (22 days ago)

[Henry Heino (personalizedrefrigerator)]

% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

refer: whois.pir.org

domain: ORG

organisation: Public Interest Registry (PIR)
address: 1775 Wiehle Avenue
address: Suite 100
address: Reston Virginia 20190
address: United States

contact: administrative
name: Director of Operations, Compliance and Customer Support
organisation: Public Interest Registry (PIR)
address: 1775 Wiehle Avenue
address: Reston Virginia 20190
address: United States
phone: [phone]
fax-no: [phone]
e-mail: <email address hidden>

contact: technical
name: Senior Director, DNS Infrastructure Group
organisation: Afilias
address: Building 3, Suite 105
address: 300 Welsh Road
address: Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044
address: United States
phone: [phone]
fax-no: +1 215.706.5701
e-mail: <email address hidden>

nserver: A0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO 199.19.56.1 2001:500:e:0:0:0:0:1
nserver: A2.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO 199.249.112.1 2001:500:40:0:0:0:0:1
nserver: B0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.ORG 199.19.54.1 2001:500:c:0:0:0:0:1
nserver: B2.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.ORG 199.249.120.1 2001:500:48:0:0:0:0:1
nserver: C0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.INFO 199.19.53.1 2001:500:b:0:0:0:0:1
nserver: D0.ORG.AFILIAS-NST.ORG 199.19.57.1 2001:500:f:0:0:0:0:1
ds-rdata: 17883 7 2 d889cad790f01979e860d6627b58f85ab554e0e491fe06515f35548d1eb4e6ee
ds-rdata: 17883 7 1 38c5cf93b369c7557e0515faaa57060f1bfb12c1

whois: whois.pir.org

status: ACTIVE
remarks: Registration information: http://www.pir.org

created: 1985-01-01
changed: 2020-04-29
source: IANA

Domain Name: RHYTHMBOX.ORG
Registry Domain ID: D402200000014082164-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namebright.com
Registrar URL: http://www.NameBright.com
Updated Date: 2020-07-10T14:36:52Z
Creation Date: 2020-07-10T14:30:36Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-07-10T14:30:36Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: DropCatch.com 480 LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 1960
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: <email address hidden>
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: [phone]
Reseller:
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Domain Status: addPeriod https://icann.org/epp#addPeriod
Registrant Organization: www.DropCatch.com
Registrant State/Province: CO
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: NS1.NAMEBRIGHTDNS.COM
Name Server: NS2.NAMEBRIGHTDNS.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form https://www.icann.org/wicf/)
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2020-07-11T09:24:16Z <<<
domain rhythmbox.org not found

[crvi (crvi)]

Please apply the following upstream patch in all "possible" rhythmbox releases.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/rhythmbox/-/commit/64c07859c936df1bc739f21b87f7a56e6f8dd161

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, indeed it seems a change worth backporting to the package but it's also rather low priority since it's not impacting daily usage and the website isn't trying to induce users in error