Amgine Saewyc wrote:
One potential liability is exemplified by http://wiki.ca.
That is, there are many commercial and NGO uses of "wiki" in Canada which predate Wiki Canada. There are not for Wikimedia Canada. (Sidenote to Ray: I thought you purchased Wikimedia.Ca back in 2006? currently parked with Dollarhost.com/Trillium Internet Company Inc.)
Thanks for the link to Wiki.ca. It's not much of a website, but they do have that domain. I haven't done any name searches recently, but that would need to be done before an application is made for incorporation. The implications of incorporating as Wiki Canada when someone else has the domain wiki.ca are unclear.
I did do a name reservation for Wikimedia during one of the various incarnations of the chapter creation attempts; I think that was at the end of 2006 after the Boston Wikimania.
Yes, I continue to hold the .ca domains for Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikisource and Wikilivres. The last one redirects to Yann Forget's wikilivres.info. The others are all parked and doing nothing.
Ray