Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-20 Thread Mono mium
Has anyone looked into introducing .wiki, initially for Wikimedia, but later for others (the fee could support the foundation)? On Saturday, June 18, 2011, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose in theory having apple available is no worse than apple.com (since you *could* have an

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Bain
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone looked into introducing .wiki, initially for Wikimedia, but later for others (the fee could support the foundation)? Got $US 185,000 handy to cover the application fee? -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone looked into introducing .wiki, initially for Wikimedia, but later for others (the fee could support the foundation)? Got $US 185,000

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-18 Thread Domas Mituzas
I suppose in theory having apple available is no worse than apple.com (since you *could* have an apple.com.mylocaldomain already and have to worry about which takes precedence), but in practice that sounds like a crappy thing to do. :) Well, yes, this is exactly why you don't usually use TLDs

[Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
While the topic of how Mediawiki handles URLs is on the table, let me point out today's Slashdot piece, which notes that ICANN is about to open up the gTLD namespace... *to everyone*, not just commercial registries. Contemplate, if you will: http://apple/ How will MW handle a FQDN with no

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-17 Thread Brion Vibber
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: While the topic of how Mediawiki handles URLs is on the table, let me point out today's Slashdot piece, which notes that ICANN is about to open up the gTLD namespace... *to everyone*, not just commercial registries.

Re: [Wikitech-l] ICANN expansion, relative URLs

2011-06-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: While the topic of how Mediawiki handles URLs is on the table, let me point out today's Slashdot piece, which notes that ICANN is about to open up the gTLD