On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell > <keegan.w...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in >> 2009 >> > about whether they were interested in buying it given that the owner at >> the >> > time had a notice on the site saying he was willing to sell. The >> response >> > came back that they were concerned it could be problematic since neither >> > the >> > Wikimedia community nor the WMF has a monopoly on the word "wiki" and >> the >> > WMF didn't want to overstep their claim to the concept. >> >> >> I think that is a good reason to leave that alone. >> >> -- >> ~Keegan >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan >> > > > It didn't get much attention, and since we've basically agreed against the > .wmf TLD in addition to wi.ki, I'd like to throw my support behind Ryan > Kaldari's suggestion of obtaining the w.org reserved name. > Here's an interesting bit of history from Wikipedia: http://enwp.org/Single-letter_second-level_domain "Only 3 of the 26 possible Single letter Domains have ever been registered and this before 1992. All the other 23 Single Letter .com Domains were registered Jan 1 1992 by Jon Postel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel>, the father of the Internet, with the intention to avoidthat a single company could commercially control a letter of the Alphabet. This makes it impossible for companies like Mc Donalds<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mc_Donalds> or Deutsche Telekom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom> to buy their Logo "M" or "T" as an Internet address." It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with his vision of no corporation controlling a letter. -- Brian Mingus Graduate student Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab University of Colorado at Boulder _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
