[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

[Martijn Hoekstra]

A while back, I think the WMF got offered the enwp.org domain for
free, which is a fairly oft used shortener. Does anyone remember what
ever happened to that offer?

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Waldir Pimenta <waldir at email.com> wrote:
> wi.ki, on the other hand, would be safe in this regard :)
>
> By the way, since no one at WMF offered to send the email requesting a
> donation/price reduction of the wi.ki domain, I'll do it as the president of
> Wikimedia Portugal, with my @wikimedia.pt email. Hopefully that'll give me
> some leverage -- only a fraction of what an email coming from an @
> wikimedia.org would, but hey, it's better than nothing.
>
> Waldir
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Kirill Lokshin
> <kirill.lokshin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Although, on the other hand, would this leave us too open to imitators,
>> given that "wiki" is not a trademark?  Consider the scenario of a group
>> like, say, 4chan registering eng.wiki and filling it with assorted shock
>> content; enough people might mistakenly visit the fake site to generate
>> considerable bad publicity for us.
>>
>> Kirill
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