[Foundation-l] Domains - Wikimedia-l

Jon

17 Jan 17 Jan

9:16 p.m.

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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>).

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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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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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Geoffrey Plourde

10:40 p.m.

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(a)yahoo.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)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(a)gmail.com registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN created: 2004.12.15 paid-till: 2009.12.15 source: TC-RIPN ________________________________ From: Jon <scream(a)datascreamer.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:16:18 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Buck wrote:

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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>).

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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 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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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Thomas Dalton

17 Jan 17 Jan

10:15 p.m.

2009/1/17 Marcus Buck <me(a)marcusbuck.org>rg>:

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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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Gordon Joly

18 Jan 18 Jan

1:25 a.m.

At 12:33 -0800 17/1/09, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:

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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(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. _____

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 -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ gordon.joly(a)pobox.com///

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Nemo_bis

5:47 p.m.

Marcus Buck, 17/01/2009 18:28:

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[.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)363). However, Wikimedia Italia spends over 270 €/year to control various domains. Nemo

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