"Once a replacement for Brad happens..."

Brad is not exactly replaceable ;-) Let's just hope that we find a skilled lawyer who is as passionate about the WMF as Brad. -George

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:35:16 -0600 Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List wrote:

David Gerard wrote:

On 24/03/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:

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BTW: Who will take care of the domains now Brad resigns?

Domain names? I thought that was already Brion's job.

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In the past Jimbo was the "designated agent" for domain names in terms of who was listed as the primary administrative contact.

Brion is clearly the "technical contact", and he is the one that deals with the server side in terms of which IP addresses and other issues about the domains and sub-domains are concerned, but in terms of being legally responsible for paying the bills and making sure the legal aspects of keeping and maintaining the domain names (and fighting off challenges to those who might claim the domains through legal action), that was clearly Brad's area of expertise.

Currently "wikipedia.org" lists Brad as both the administrative contact as well as the technical contact. See http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=wikipedia.org&prog_id=godaddy for some details.

Once a replacement for Brad happens, this is something that should be dealt with. I think Brion ought to be listed as the technical contact, (mainly for situations like this), but that is something left to the WMF board to decide. The "real" person who owns the domain is the person listed as the administrative contact. In theory Brad could really screw over the foundation here if he wanted, even though I seriously doubt he is that kind of person to take advantage of this situation, not to mention it would ruin is reputation as an attorney.

-- Robert Horning

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