[hackerspaces] Securing domain names

[Paul Bohm]

Hey Sylva1n, i hold hack(er)*spaces\.(org|com|net), but have no
intention to register more
Would be cool if others stepped up before the shady resellers get them

Also surprised we never got the .at domain for metalab, but i guess we
never expected this to take off like it did ;) [any of you metalabbers
(<3!) wanna do that?]

enki

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:12 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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