The nice thing about "particularly bad serial cybersquatters" is that
they tend to offer reasonable prices. Once upon I time, I foolishly
allowed
bomis.net and
bomis.org to expire and they were promptly
squatted. I was horrified at what it might cost to get them back, but
it turned out to be quite reasonable, given the fact that it was
completely tragic in the first place, of course.
If this person is a professional, he's going to be smart and know that
this isn't worth *that much* money to us. He'll charge us a small
nuisance amount, like double what he paid, and that'll be that.
Angela_ wrote:
(moving thread from wikien-l to foundation-l. Please
reply there)
Jens Ropers wrote:
1. I am seeking to donate the
wikipaedia.net
domain name (which I have
registered) to the Wikipedia Foundation.
Thank you for offering us this. My only concern is that confusion
could arise if we own
wikipaedia.net but not the other wikipaedia
domains. If we don't own any of them, it's more obvious that
wikipaedia is nothing to do with us.
2. A particularly bad serial cybersquatter is
controlling
wikipaedia.org,
wikipaedia.com and wikipaedia.de. We really should get
these domains off him (and would be able to do so).
I asked in the German IRC channel about this. Maybe I'm assuming too
much good faith, but I think we ought to approach that site owner in a
friendly way at first before we get too heavy handed. Sansculotte is
going to take this to the VereinDE-l mailing list and discuss it
there. Hopefully someone who speaks German can contact the site about
this. We might well get no reply, but at least we can say we tried
before taking this any further. It is worth noting that Akl was
successful in getting the wikipedia.ch and wikipedia.at domains back,
so perhaps this can be successful too.
Angela.
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