Re: [Wikipedia-l] Domain parking

-- David On 12/09/06, Andrew Archer archer.andy@gmail.com wrote: > Domain name complaints are really nasty and costly, especially if they fight > it. > > Petitions are free. > > Andrew Archer > > On 12/09/06, David Mestel david.mestel@gmail.com wrote: > > > > I don't entirely understand the difficulty - surely the WMF has some > > kind of trademark over the Wikipedia name, which would allow them to > > forbid others to use it? I'm no lawyer, but I don't see why we would > > need to bother with a petition. > > > > David > > > > On 12/09/06, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote: > > > "Ray Saintonge" wrote: > > > > At what point do we become subject to the law of diminishing returns? > > > > The possible variations on our different wikinames, national domains > > and > > > > undotted language codes could rapidly get completely out of hand. > > > > > > > > If a person cybersquats one of these names with malicious intent it's > > > > hard to imagine that he will be impressed by a petition with 1,000 > > > > signatures. Even when we manage to wrest one of these names away > > there > > > > comes a point where the cumulative burden of keeping all these names > > > > protected is just not cost effective. > > > > > > > > Ec > > > > > > Even worse, i'd warn you that this can attract more people to > > cybersquatting > > > our domains, as we will be publicising this subject. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > > Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org > > > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > > > > > > > > -- > > David > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikipedia-l mailing list > > Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org > > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > -- David