Ultimately, registering .wiki names for Wikimedia wikis might improve accessibility to our wikis and further the concept of wikis in general, but (second-level) domain names aren't free (with few exceptions), so the foundation would have to take it up as an additional cost.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Quinn Wood wood.quinn.s@gmail.com wrote:
Jeremy Baron wrote
Could I register starwars.wiki in order to redirect it to starwars.wikia.com ? (or if wikia offered white labeling to host it in place?)
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Your quote could use some more context. Whether it should be registered is irrelevant. That was about whether it *could* be. (or if it would be prevented because of the use of a trademark)
If you were delegated authority for "startwars.wiki." by the operators of "wiki." and added "starwars.wiki. IN CNAME starwars.wikia.com." to your zone file, George Lucas and friends may attempt to prevent you from using the zone/record. I'd assume the closer your zone/record gets to the root the more of a chance they would have of convincing a judge that they needed to defend the trademark.
WMF wouldn't have a say in the matter.
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