Ultimately, registering .wiki names for Wikimedia wikis might improve
accessibility to our wikis and further the concept of wikis in general, but
(second-level) domain names aren't free (with few exceptions), so the
foundation would have to take it up as an additional cost.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Quinn Wood <wood.quinn.s(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jeremy Baron wrote
Could I register starwars.wiki in order to
redirect it to
starwars.wikia.com ? (or if wikia offered white labeling to host it in
place?)
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com>
wrote:
Your quote could use some more context. Whether
it should be
registered is irrelevant. That was about whether it *could* be. (or if
it would be prevented because of the use of a trademark)
If you were delegated authority for "startwars.wiki." by the operators
of "wiki." and added
"starwars.wiki. IN CNAME starwars.wikia.com."
to your zone file, George Lucas and friends may attempt to prevent you
from using the zone/record. I'd assume the closer your zone/record
gets to the root the more of a chance they would have of convincing a
judge that they needed to defend the trademark.
WMF wouldn't have a say in the matter.
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