At 23:27 +0000 26/1/09, James Hardy wrote:
2009/1/26 Gordon Joly
<<mailto:gordon.joly@pobox.com>gordon.joly@pobox.com>
Could go for something in <http://ltd.uk>ltd.uk (as well)?
Nominet have strict rules on use of .<http://ltd.uk>ltd.uk domains,
and an algorithm for their generation
The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are
<http://wikiuk.ltd.uk>wikiuk.ltd.uk or
<http://wiki-uk.ltd.uk>wiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fails their
tests. As the intention is to trade as Wikimedia UK that would
probably not be advisable as it could cause confusion amongst
potential donors.
Additionally as the .<http://ltd.uk>ltd.uk second level is not as
widely used, public awareness of it is very low. Use of less popular
domains tends to cause problem with people "filling in the blanks".
Plenty of people complain to me that they get a bounce message when
emailling me, only for me to discover they have attempted to email
me at <mailto:something@weebbiz.com>something@weebbiz.com or
<mailto:something@weeb.biz.co.uk>something@weeb.biz.co.uk or some
other mangled variation of my domain.
James
Thanks for that. And yes, the strict rules ensure that the company
(and hence the charity later) would have a 100% watertight control
over the domain.
Gordo
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