At 12:33 -0800 17/1/09, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: >Its probably an oversight with regards to Bomis > >I suspect Mr/Ms brooking is a wikipedian, if not its a simple >changeover process. > > > >________________________________ >From: Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> >To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:15:52 PM >Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Domains > >2009/1/17 Marcus Buck <[email protected]>: >> 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. > >_____
host wikipedia.org.uk wikipedia.org.uk has address 81.29.67.145 wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 10 mail.wikipedia.org.uk. wikipedia.org.uk mail is handled by 20 louis.webconexion.co.uk. Dead in some sense I guess. Gordo -- "Think Feynman"///////// http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [email protected]/// _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
