Domain name complaints are really nasty and costly,
especially if they fight
it.
Petitions are free.
Andrew Archer
On 12/09/06, David Mestel <david.mestel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't entirely understand the difficulty - surely the WMF has some
kind of trademark over the Wikipedia name, which would allow them to
forbid others to use it? I'm no lawyer, but I don't see why we would
need to bother with a petition.
David
On 12/09/06, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"Ray Saintonge" wrote:
> 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.
Ec
Even worse, i'd warn you that this can attract more people to
cybersquatting
our domains, as we will be publicising this
subject.
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