[Foundation-l] Wikilovesmonuments

[Lodewijk]

Hi billy,

thanks for your attention. Wiki Loves Monuments is being organized by
several chapters in over 15 countries in Europe. The main page for that is
indeed www.wikilovesmonuments.eu . The Wikimedia Foundation is not involved
in organizing the events, nor is it responsible for its websites - this is
one of the projects run by chapters.

Unfortunately, it is not affordable to register every possible domain which
might be hijacked. We were aware that there would be a risk for that, and
that potentially, this could be organized in even many more countries. We
did choose to register wikilovesmonuments.org (registered by WMDE) but
didn't register the .com - we had to draw a line somewhere.

For a possible intercontinental contest, we would have to rely on the .org
domain.

Lodewijk

2011/8/26 billy joel <billyonline at hotmail.nl>

>
> Yes, I understood that.
> But I think its kind of stupid that the foundation didn't buy the .com
> domain and that it was possible to hijack it...
>
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