wikimania2006.org is not taken last I checked. CHI
seems to be doing
quite well using that model. I didn't find Wikimania registered as a
trademark with the US, European, Australian or Canadian patent offices
at least. Don't know about doing a more comprehensive international
search...
Yeah... but would people know to look for
wikimania2006.org over
wikimania.org? I say we secure the trademark, and try to discuss
with the
domain owners over who has a right to get the website, or how much
it would
cost.
Does anyone know if they want to sell? What they want to sell for?
Getting a trademark (in the US) is a big pain and time-consuming (&
pricy), but could probably be done since the conference likely had
prior precendent over any other use. It could probably *not* be done
before we actually need the site & name for publicity & such. IANAL,
etc.
I did find Anthere's original statement to be cryptic and
uninformative. I'm sure some of us would appreciate hearing a little
more factual background to this story. The time and expense of
getting a trademark will be there with any name.