[Foundation-l] Domains

[Gordon Joly]

At 12:33 -0800 17/1/09, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis
>
>I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple 
>changeover process.
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:15:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains
>
>2009/1/17 Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>:
>>  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).
>
>wikipedia.co.uk is apparently owned by Bomis, which seems a little
>strange - wasn't everything transferred over to WMF?
>wikimedia.co.uk is owned by James Forrester, a Wikimedian
>wikipedia.org.uk is owned by Chris Brooking, a name I don't recognise
>(and the domain appears to be dead)
>wikimedia.org.uk is owned by James Forrester (and may be transferred
>to Wikimedia UK - I believe we're waiting for a response for James on
>that one)
>The .net.uk names are apparently both registered, but have no site
>attached to them and no name given.
>
>I haven't checked other European domains, or the domains for other
>projects, but it seems we aren't doing too badly in the UK.
>
>_____



host wikipedia.org.uk
wikipedia.org.uk has address 81.29.67.145
wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 10 mail.wikipedia.org.uk.
wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 20 louis.webconexion.co.uk.

Dead in some sense I guess.

Gordo

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