On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in
2009
about whether they were interested in buying it given that the owner at
the
time had a notice on the site saying he was willing to sell. The
response
came back that they were concerned it could be problematic since neither the Wikimedia community nor the WMF has a monopoly on the word "wiki" and
the
WMF didn't want to overstep their claim to the concept.
I think that is a good reason to leave that alone.
-- ~Keegan
It didn't get much attention, and since we've basically agreed against the .wmf TLD in addition to wi.ki, I'd like to throw my support behind Ryan Kaldari's suggestion of obtaining the w.org reserved name.
Here's an interesting bit of history from Wikipedia: http://enwp.org/Single-letter_second-level_domain
"Only 3 of the 26 possible Single letter Domains have ever been registered and this before 1992. All the other 23 Single Letter .com Domains were registered Jan 1 1992 by Jon Postelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel, the father of the Internet, with the intention to avoidthat a single company could commercially control a letter of the Alphabet. This makes it impossible for companies like Mc Donaldshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mc_Donalds or Deutsche Telekom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom to buy their Logo "M" or "T" as an Internet address."
It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with his vision of no corporation controlling a letter.