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me at marcusbuck
Jan 17, 2009, 9:28 AM
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On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
register European domain names
(<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).
Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
.co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).

If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
domains).

Marcus Buck

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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
scream at datascreamer
Jan 17, 2009, 11:16 AM
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Marcus Buck wrote:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).

> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).
>
> Marcus Buck
>
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You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report
back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.

Jon
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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
geo.plrd at yahoo
Jan 17, 2009, 12:13 PM
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domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU
type: CORPORATE
nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com.
nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com.
state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED
org: "MADVOL" Ltd.
phone: +7 095 1234567
e-mail: madvol@gmail.com
registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN
created: 2004.12.15
paid-till: 2009.12.15
source: TC-RIPN




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From: Jon <scream@datascreamer.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:16:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

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Marcus Buck wrote:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).

> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).
>
> Marcus Buck
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report
back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.

Jon
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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
thomas.dalton at gmail
Jan 17, 2009, 12:15 PM
Post #4 of 8 (1126 views)
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2009/1/17 Marcus Buck <me@marcusbuck.org>:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).
> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).

wikipedia.co.uk is apparently owned by Bomis, which seems a little
strange - wasn't everything transferred over to WMF?
wikimedia.co.uk is owned by James Forrester, a Wikimedian
wikipedia.org.uk is owned by Chris Brooking, a name I don't recognise
(and the domain appears to be dead)
wikimedia.org.uk is owned by James Forrester (and may be transferred
to Wikimedia UK - I believe we're waiting for a response for James on
that one)
The .net.uk names are apparently both registered, but have no site
attached to them and no name given.

I haven't checked other European domains, or the domains for other
projects, but it seems we aren't doing too badly in the UK.

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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
geo.plrd at yahoo
Jan 17, 2009, 12:40 PM
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It appears that Madvol, Ltd is a scam company that registers domain names for extortion. They have been used to register 3251 names. The email is identified with 120something domains.




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From: Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:13:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU
type: CORPORATE
nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com.
nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com.
state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED
org: "MADVOL" Ltd.
phone: +7 095 1234567
e-mail: madvol@gmail.com
registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN
created: 2004.12.15
paid-till: 2009.12.15
source: TC-RIPN




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From: Jon <scream@datascreamer.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:16:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains

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Marcus Buck wrote:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).

> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).
>
> Marcus Buck
>
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
You should be able to do the WHOIS check. Will you do that and report
back to us what *you* find? We can go from there.

Jon
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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
putevod at mccme
Jan 17, 2009, 5:48 PM
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> domain: WIKIPEDIA.RU
> type: CORPORATE
> nserver: ns1.sedoparking.com.
> nserver: ns2.sedoparking.com.
> state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED
> org: "MADVOL" Ltd.
> phone: +7 095 1234567
> e-mail: madvol@gmail.com
> registrar: RUCENTER-REG-RIPN
> created: 2004.12.15
> paid-till: 2009.12.15
> source: TC-RIPN
>
I believe that one has been cybersquatted and this is a long-standing
problem.

Cheers
Yaroslav


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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
Platonides at gmail
Jan 18, 2009, 4:01 PM
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Marcus Buck wrote:
> On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to
> register European domain names
> (<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html>).
> Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are
> still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es,
> .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
>
> If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we
> should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional
> money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx
> domains).
>
> Marcus Buck


wikimedia.{org|nom}.es are owned by a wikimedian. Other
wikipedia/wikimedia .es domains don't seem to have any relationship
(although many are parked and so might be bona fide registrations)


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Re: Domains [ In reply to ]
nemowiki at gmail
Jan 19, 2009, 7:47 AM
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Marcus Buck, 17/01/2009 18:28:
> [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
But we don't control it, and we don't know how long the redirect will
function (http://it.wikipedia.org/?diff=21089211&oldid=19470363).
However, Wikimedia Italia spends over 270 €/year to control various
domains.

Nemo

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