Awesome. Thanks Wayne. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 6:35 PM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >
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