[hackerspaces] Securing domain names

[Jens Christian Hillerup]

I'm on it.

-jc (.dk)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Sylva1n <sylv41n at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've done a quick checkout, and there are lots of national
> "hackerspaces.TLD" that are still available.
> May I suggest any hacker spaces in :
> <sidenote> do NOT 'whois' those domain names unless you're ready to buy them
> immediately. Some site have been know in the past to 'reserve' any domain
> name that was searched for. </sidenote>
> - Swiss (ch)
> - Spain (es,cat)
> - Belgium (be)
> - UK (org.uk, co.uk eventually)
> - Poland (pl)
> - Austria (at)
> - China (cn)
> - Mexico (mx)
> - Czech Republic (cz)
> - Argentina (ar)
> - Canada (ca)
> - Italy (it)
> - Japan (jp)
> - India (in)
> - Luxembourg (lu)
> - Norway (no)
> - Portugal (pt)
> - Russia (ru)
> - Sweden (se)
> - Taiwan (tw)
>
> ... to secure their respective national domain name _ASAP_, make a small
> site (in their native language) explaining the HS movement, point to
> national HS webpages and host contact pages for HS without web presence.
> For the English version, point to hackerspaces.org, there's no need to
> duplicate the global and local HS lists.
>
> For now, the NL, DE, FR, US, EU and ASIA are secured and hopefully in good
> hands (no shady resalers).
> Additionally, the nice fellows who own the ORG, NET and COM could grab the
> TV domain (for future vodcast projects), before those horrible name-grabbing
> robots see there is an interest and preempt everything still available.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Sylva1n
>
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