Right so all Canonical would need to do is draft a letter to the registrar. Since Canonical owns the Ubuntu trademark they can get it transferred to them at no cost and they have done this for other LoCo's because its a pretty regular problem.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Patrick Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:15:47 -0800, Walter Lapchynski <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Any chance you might ask Canonical legal to just get ubuntu-oregon.org >>> back? >>> They have done this in the past for other domains that get squatted. >>> >> >> Well, I could be wrong, but I don't think they would be willing to pay >> for the domain registration or the hosting. I doubt you want to pay >> for it Ben ;) >> > > oregon.ubuntu-us.org includes hosting, right? So if we somehow got > ubuntu-oregon.org, couldn't we just set it to redirect to > oregon.ubuntu-us.org? > > I like the URL as it seems more appropriate. On the other hand, if you >> happen to stumble across, say, washington.ubuntu-us.org, you might >> wonder if there's an oregon.ubuntu-us.org. The consistency of naming >> has a value, I think. >> >> What do you guys think? >> > > I like the idea of having both, but don't know if it's practical. I went > to the website of the company that has our old domain "parked" and put in > the domain name, but their system's response was something like "sorry it's > taken" rather than the "this domain is for sale" that I was expecting. > > > Thanks, > Patrick > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-or mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or > -- Benjamin Kerensa http://benjaminkerensa.com
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