Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis
I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple
changeover process.
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From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:15:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
2009/1/17 Marcus Buck <me(a)marcusbuck.org>rg>:
On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that
200 EUR were donated to
register European domain names
(<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).
Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
.co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
domains).
wikipedia.co.uk is apparently owned by Bomis, which seems a little
strange - wasn't everything transferred over to WMF?
wikimedia.co.uk is owned by James Forrester, a Wikimedian
wikipedia.org.uk is owned by Chris Brooking, a name I don't recognise
(and the domain appears to be dead)
wikimedia.org.uk is owned by James Forrester (and may be transferred
to Wikimedia UK - I believe we're waiting for a response for James on
that one)
The .net.uk names are apparently both registered, but have no site
attached to them and no name given.
I haven't checked other European domains, or the domains for other
projects, but it seems we aren't doing too badly in the UK.
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host wikipedia.org.uk
wikipedia.org.uk has address 81.29.67.145
wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 10 mail.wikipedia.org.uk.
wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 20 louis.webconexion.co.uk.
Dead in some sense I guess.
Gordo
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