[Wikipedia-l] Domain parking

[Ray Saintonge]

At what point do we become subject to the law of diminishing returns?  
The possible variations on our different wikinames, national domains and 
undotted language codes could rapidly get completely out of hand. 

If a person cybersquats one of these names with malicious intent it's 
hard to imagine that he will be impressed by a petition with 1,000 
signatures.  Even when we manage to wrest one of these names away there 
comes a point where the cumulative burden of keeping all these names 
protected is just not cost effective.

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Brad Patrick wrote:

>I very much appreciate the discussion about problem domains.
>
>It would benefit WMF greatly if we had the following:
>
>-List of problem domains (is there a page?)
>-Petition engine to capture usernames against use of said domains
>
>That will give us what we need to pursue action as laid out by Akash with a
>minimum of WMF resources having to dedicate time to it.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Brad
>  
>
>>On 9/12/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>>>>A thousand? I can guarantee a whole lot more than 1000. How about I
>>>>build a prototype site to handle the petition where people can
>>>>register their Wikipedia username as someone supporting the petition?
>>>>It wouldn't be too hard, and if we can find hosting with reasonable
>>>>database space, we can build it, post about it on village pump /
>>>>community portal / whatever else. I bet we can get 10000 in a matter
>>>>of weeks.
>>>>
>>>>On 9/12/06, Michael Billington <michael.billington at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>>You could also come up with a petition, having all Wikipedia users
>>>>>>sign it, and present it to domain owners. Anyone else have any ideas?
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>Having all wikipedia users would be near-impossible, but I think it would be
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>possible to drum up a thousand or so.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just about every time I've typed "wikipedia" wrong, i get a parked
>>>>>domain.... so it is an annoying problem, but is it worth the trouble?
>>>>>          
>>>>>