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).
Marcus Buck
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Marcus Buck wrote:
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).
Marcus Buck
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You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.
Jon
domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU type: CORPORATE nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com. nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com. state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED org: "MADVOL" Ltd. phone: +7 095 1234567 e-mail: madvol@gmail.com registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN created: 2004.12.15 paid-till: 2009.12.15 source: TC-RIPN
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Marcus Buck wrote:
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).
Marcus Buck
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You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.
Jon
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It appears that Madvol, Ltd is a scam company that registers domain names for extortion. They have been used to register 3251 names. The email is identified with 120something domains.
________________________________ From: Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:13:56 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU type: CORPORATE nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com. nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com. state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED org: "MADVOL" Ltd. phone: +7 095 1234567 e-mail: madvol@gmail.com registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN created: 2004.12.15 paid-till: 2009.12.15 source: TC-RIPN
________________________________ From: Jon scream@datascreamer.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:16:18 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
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Marcus Buck wrote:
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).
Marcus Buck
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You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.
Jon
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domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU type: CORPORATE nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com. nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com. state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED org: "MADVOL" Ltd. phone: +7 095 1234567 e-mail: madvol@gmail.com registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN created: 2004.12.15 paid-till: 2009.12.15 source: TC-RIPN
I believe that one has been cybersquatted and this is a long-standing problem.
Cheers Yaroslav
2009/1/17 Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org:
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.
Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis
I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple changeover process.
________________________________ From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:15:52 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
2009/1/17 Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org:
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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At 12:33 -0800 17/1/09, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis
I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple changeover process.
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:15:52 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
2009/1/17 Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org:
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.
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
Marcus Buck wrote:
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).
Marcus Buck
wikimedia.{org|nom}.es are owned by a wikimedian. Other wikipedia/wikimedia .es domains don't seem to have any relationship (although many are parked and so might be bona fide registrations)
Marcus Buck, 17/01/2009 18:28:
[.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
But we don't control it, and we don't know how long the redirect will function (http://it.wikipedia.org/?diff=21089211&oldid=19470363). However, Wikimedia Italia spends over 270 €/year to control various domains.
Nemo
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