2009/1/26 Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com
Could go for something in ltd.uk (as well)?
Nominet have strict rules on use of .ltd.uk domains, and an algorithm for
their generation
The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are wikiuk.ltd.uk or wiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fails their tests. As the intention is to trade as Wikimedia UK that would probably not be advisable as it could cause confusion amongst potential donors.
Additionally as the .ltd.uk second level is not as widely used, public awareness of it is very low. Use of less popular domains tends to cause problem with people "filling in the blanks". Plenty of people complain to me that they get a bounce message when emailling me, only for me to discover they have attempted to email me at something@weebbiz.com or something@weeb.biz.co.uk or some other mangled variation of my domain.
James
2009/1/26 James Hardy wikimediauk@weeb.biz:
2009/1/26 Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com
Could go for something in ltd.uk (as well)?
Nominet have strict rules on use of .ltd.uk domains, and an algorithm for their generation
The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are wikiuk.ltd.uk or wiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fails their tests. As the intention is to trade as Wikimedia UK that would probably not be advisable as it could cause confusion amongst potential donors.
If we get such a domain name at all, it should only serve as a redirect to a more obvious one. Since no-one else can get either of those names, I see little need for us to do so.
At 23:27 +0000 26/1/09, James Hardy wrote:
2009/1/26 Gordon Joly <mailto:gordon.joly@pobox.comgordon.joly@pobox.com>
Could go for something in http://ltd.ukltd.uk (as well)?
Nominet have strict rules on use of .http://ltd.ukltd.uk domains, and an algorithm for their generation
The only two possibilities for Wiki UK Ltd are http://wikiuk.ltd.ukwikiuk.ltd.uk or http://wiki-uk.ltd.ukwiki-uk.ltd.uk; anything else fails their tests. As the intention is to trade as Wikimedia UK that would probably not be advisable as it could cause confusion amongst potential donors.
Additionally as the .http://ltd.ukltd.uk second level is not as widely used, public awareness of it is very low. Use of less popular domains tends to cause problem with people "filling in the blanks". Plenty of people complain to me that they get a bounce message when emailling me, only for me to discover they have attempted to email me at mailto:something@weebbiz.comsomething@weebbiz.com or mailto:something@weeb.biz.co.uksomething@weeb.biz.co.uk or some other mangled variation of my domain.
James
Thanks for that. And yes, the strict rules ensure that the company (and hence the charity later) would have a 100% watertight control over the domain.
Gordo
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