Ultimately, registering .wiki names for Wikimedia wikis might improve accessibility to our wikis and further the concept of wikis in general, but (second-level) domain names aren't free (with few exceptions), so the foundation would have to take it up as an additional cost.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Quinn Wood <wood.quin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeremy Baron wrote > > Could I register starwars.wiki in order to redirect it to > > starwars.wikia.com ? (or if wikia offered white labeling to host it in > > place?) > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> > wrote: > > Your quote could use some more context. Whether it should be > > registered is irrelevant. That was about whether it *could* be. (or if > > it would be prevented because of the use of a trademark) > > > If you were delegated authority for "startwars.wiki." by the operators > of "wiki." and added > "starwars.wiki. IN CNAME starwars.wikia.com." > to your zone file, George Lucas and friends may attempt to prevent you > from using the zone/record. I'd assume the closer your zone/record > gets to the root the more of a chance they would have of convincing a > judge that they needed to defend the trademark. > > WMF wouldn't have a say in the matter. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
