I'm not going to push my luck on this. I am still not sure what Digikey's agenda is so I am approaching this cautiously. If they show a willingness to work with the project, I may suggest this but getting them to redirect kicad.org would be a good first step.
On 8/30/2016 7:19 AM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote: > Wayne, I think if they are up for being sponsors you should push for > transferring the domain proper so the main site can actually be > kicad.org <http://kicad.org> instead of redirecting. > > On 30 August 2016 at 00:37, Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com > <mailto:adamw...@feelslikeburning.com>> wrote: > > Awesome. Thanks Wayne. > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 6:35 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I already am in contact with Digikey and am waiting for a response. > According to Digikey, they paid ~5K (I have no way of verifying > this) > for the kicad.org <http://kicad.org> domain because they had > customers that got malware on > their computers who typed kicad.org <http://kicad.org>. Digikey > has done us a favor and I > have offered to add them to the list of corporate sponsors if > they would > be willing to redirect kicad.org <http://kicad.org> to > kicad-pcb.org <http://kicad-pcb.org>. They seemed amicable > to the idea. It's been about a week since I've heard from > them. I may > ping them in another week or so to see if they are still interested. > > Cheers, > > Wayne > > On 8/29/2016 7:17 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > I know some people at Digikey. I'll send them an email tonight. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > On Aug 29, 2016 6:03 PM, "José Ignacio" <jose.cyb...@gmail.com > <mailto:jose.cyb...@gmail.com> > > <mailto:jose.cyb...@gmail.com <mailto:jose.cyb...@gmail.com>>> > wrote: > > > > kicad.org <http://kicad.org> <http://kicad.org> used to be > a "domain for sale" landing > > page for a long > > while, but looks like in July it was acquired by DigiKey > and made to > > redirect to http://digikey.com. Maybe it would be a good > idea to ask > > them nicely if they could redirect it to kicad-pcb.org > <http://kicad-pcb.org> > > <http://kicad-pcb.org> instead, or > > donate it to the project. > > > > I too many times have typed kicad.org <http://kicad.org> > <http://kicad.org> when I > > wanted to reach kicad's > > website and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net>> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers>> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
