[Foundation-l] Domains

[Geoffrey Plourde]

It appears that Madvol, Ltd is a scam company that registers domain names for extortion. They have been used to register 3251 names. The email is identified with 120something domains. 




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From: Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:13:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

domain:    WIKIPEDIA.RU
type:       CORPORATE
nserver:    ns1.sedoparking.com.
nserver:    ns2.sedoparking.com.
state:      REGISTERED, DELEGATED
org:        "MADVOL" Ltd.
phone:      +7 095 1234567
e-mail:    madvol at gmail.com
registrar:  RUCENTER-REG-RIPN
created:    2004.12.15
paid-till:  2009.12.15
source:     TC-RIPN




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From: Jon <scream at datascreamer.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:16:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

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Marcus Buck wrote:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).

> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).
>
> Marcus Buck
>
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You should be able to do the WHOIS check.  Will you do that and report
back to us what *you* find?  We can go from there.

Jon
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