[Foundation-l] Re: Progress on wikimedia.com?

[Anthere]

Afaik, the trademark page is not very very outdated, since the only 
trademarks we recently got are wikipedia in Japan and Europe.

But Jimbo will update it with more information soon.

Given what Akl is reporting, the owner of www.wikimedia.com probably was 
not very willing to negociate.
We do not have more in hands to motivate him yet : we need to ensure 
wikimedia is registered in the USA, which would be very useful for the 
negociation.
So Erik, please hold on.
Thanks

Anthere

Arne Klempert a écrit:
> On Wednesday, February 09, 2005 6:41 AM
> Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Erik Moeller a écrit:
>>
>>>I seem to recall that there were negotiations underway at some point
>>>with the owner of wikimedia.com on transferring that domain name to
>>>the Foundation. To this day, there is no content under the domain,
>>>not even ads, just a German "Under construction" notice. I would
>>>like to inquire what the outcome of the past negotiations was. If
>>>they failed, is there any chance that we can get the domain by
>>>virtue of owning the trademark rights to "Wikimedia", and the domain
>>>name not being used in any other way by its owner?
>>
>>Negociations were under way with a member of the german association. I
>>do not remember with certainty who. Possibly akl.
> 
> 
> Yes. After I got no respond to my first mail (should be in the archive
> of this list) I tried it by phone (didn't reach the person who is named
> in the whois database, but the guy I talked to seemed to qualify for
> making decisions). He said he would have a look at my mail and would
> respond - but he didn't. After a kind reminder mail I called him again,
> and he said again that he would answer the mail - but he didn't.
> 
> After that I came to the conclusion that he won't give it away unless
> we're putting the screws on. So I decided to wait until Wikimedia is
> registered as a trademark at least in the U.S. Could anyone tell me if
> this is already done?
> 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_trademarks
> seems a little bit outdated :-(
> 
> I'll forward my mails and the contact informations to Erik.
> 
> -Arne (akl)