[Ubuntu Oregon] ubuntu-us-or added by skellat

[Benjamin Kerensa]

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 <compman42 at linuxusers.us>
wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:15:47 -0800, Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com>
>> 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
>
>
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