> I'm willing to buy a domain name and hand over the control of it (as a
> donation), but I do not have resources for hosting the
> server. My university is not so keen to be a webhoster
> (<- is this a new word creation of mine ?).
You don't have to host anything. Just get the IP info from GNU.org
and point www.hurd.org (or whatever) to their IP address.
-Brent