On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-31, at 14:17 , Andrew Rist <andrew.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> >> On 10/31/2012 8:54 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 10/30/2012 04:14 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/30/2012 1:39 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>>>> Looking at old threads, I'm a bit confused about the outcome of this one: >>>>> >>>>> http://markmail.org/message/ldigtivvyy2su62u >>>>> >>>>> Currently some of the ".com" domains don't even show up on the DNS radar, >>>>> and on the others remaining registered by Oracle. Was it the outcome of >>>>> this discussion to have Oracle transfer the registrations to the ASF? >>>>> >>>>> I thought that was perhaps what we wanted to do, but ti doesn't seem to >>>>> have happened yet. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew, can you shed some light? Thanks. >>>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4906 >>>> >>>> I guess it's not been on the top of any of our lists. The domains were >>>> opened up for transfer on the Oracle side (not sure if that times out). >>>> >>>> Andrew >>> >>> Thanks for the update. I'm not sure what this means though. :/ >>> >>> Oracle didn't renew them and now these domains are up for grabs? >> Unfortunately - that does seem to be the case. I'm not sure if that is >> really a problem, though. > > I don't think it is. > > >> A lot of these domains were acquired as a defensive measure, and I am not >> sure there is currently a substantial problem with these 'similar domains'. > > Quite. I was working with the legal team at Sun and then Oracle on these and > a) not many of them and b) the efforts were targeted and defensive and did > not really map to any aggressive outreach strategy. Actually, to say a nice > thing about a certain set of companies, the efforts really were directed to > shelter the most active communities.
I did a series of whois requests on these domains. They seems to be registered with Tucows on auto-renewal: eg: Domain ID:D159673109-LROR Domain Name:IT-OPENOFFICE.ORG Created On:16-Jul-2010 19:33:15 UTC Last Updated On:17-Jun-2012 06:09:50 UTC Expiration Date:16-Jul-2013 19:33:15 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR) > >> Also, if a problem does arise, we have the trademark to protect the brand. > > Yes, but perhaps we can start a new thread or threads that can finalize this > issue and re-frame it not as a set of defensive tactics but as a strategy to > promote AOO, and to use the domains as vehicles for that promotion…. The thread name is correct. This is old business.. Choice 1 - work to transfer domains to the ASF so that the AOO can "do something" with these domains. In order to take control of the DNS for each domain we need someone with Apache Infrastructure karma to work in concert with the proper person from Oracle in order to transfer all of these domain registrations. Choice 2 - ignore these domains. Let Oracle know we don't care. They can make their own choice about renewing these domains or not. Regards, Dave >> >> Andrew >>> >>>> >>> >> > > -louis
