On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Some of the responses are from people who work for the Wikimedia Foundation (not the same thing as being a Wikimedian), however i am almost certain they are responding in a personal capacity not an official one. If you are looking for some sort of official response from WMF legal, you are in the wrong place.
I believe the last official response was that discussions are being had privately between WMF and Top Level Design.[1]
So while I agree that this whole gTLD thing is probably some sort of money-grabbing scheme,[2] the balance of evidence seems to indicate that situation with .wiki isn't anything to worry overmuch about yet.
[1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074622.html [2]: I note how .info, years ago, was created with the same sort of rationale but in the end the only thing I've ever heard about .info is on anti-spam lists about blocking the whole thing because basically no one uses it for sending ham.