I've now heard back from James (he was away), and
he's raised a good
point about whether the WMF or WMUK should have control of these
domains and the other UK domains for the WMF's trademarks. I've been
in contact with Mike Godwin about this; discussions are ongoing.
It doesn't make a great deal of difference, I guess. We have the
trademark license (or at least will do soon), so I don't see why we
can't have the domain name.
With the website, the limiting factor is still getting
the wiki set
up, as I expect we can get the domain names repointed fairly easily.
There's been no progress with the request yet, though.
There has been progress - I nudged Brion and he's delegated it to
someone, so hopefully they'll do it soon.