> If you are able to completely delete your organisation, then you could re-create it as a free personal account. That should be enough to reserve the name to prevent hostile take-over. Has Docker forgotten Remember leftpad?
>
> This is unlikely that large projects can simply delete their organisation and all its images.
>
> If that's the case, and you can tolerate some downtime, you could try the following:
> - Create a new personal user account
> - Mirror all images and tags required to the new user account
> - Delete the organisation
> - Rename the personal user account to the name of the organisation
Seems like no?
We cannot rename personal accounts on Docker Hub in 2023. There is no such feature in account settings, and here is the related issue:
https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/44
So, at the moment, any public organization images are doomed to be lost, if they won't pay.
> If you are able to completely delete your organisation, then you could re-create it as a free personal account. That should be enough to reserve the name to prevent hostile take-over. Has Docker forgotten Remember leftpad? > > This is unlikely that large projects can simply delete their organisation and all its images. > > If that's the case, and you can tolerate some downtime, you could try the following: > - Create a new personal user account > - Mirror all images and tags required to the new user account > - Delete the organisation > - Rename the personal user account to the name of the organisation
Seems like no?
We cannot rename personal accounts on Docker Hub in 2023. There is no such feature in account settings, and here is the related issue: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/44
So, at the moment, any public organization images are doomed to be lost, if they won't pay.