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 domain because they had customers that got malware on their computers who typed 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 to 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" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > 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> instead, or > donate it to the project. > > I too many times have typed 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> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > 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 : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
