[Foundation-l] wikipedia.it

[geni]

On 12/14/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/06, Gianluigi Gamba <gigamb at tin.it> wrote:
> > "www.wikipedia.it" is currently owned by a person that has no
> > relationship neither with Wikimedia Italia nor with the community of
> > it.wiki users.
> > Up to now, the attempts to establish a contact in order to have the
> > domain back ended up in silence.
> > Until yesterday the link pointed to a webmail login page (the same you
> > can currently see at "www.wikinews.it").
>
>
> Wikinews too?
>
> Gee.. they just happened to coincidently come up with all these names
> on their own....

I seem to recall such domains can change hands for a few hundred $
certialy I ran across someone trying to sell .co.il at one point

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geni