For Sale Will WIKILEAKS.COM expire?

[rambo3]

In an article on the BBC Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and Wikia says that Wikia owns

WIKILEAKS.COM
WIKILEAKS.NET
WIKILEAKS.US

and that they are about to expire (03-Jan-11) and he WILL NOT renew them.

Do you think he will let them drop?

 

[urlurl]

my guess is yes

 

[grcorp]

I wonder how many backorders have been put out for this name?

I would estimate something in the order of 1,000 backorders.

 

[urlurl]

i wouldnt touch them - bad karma, lol

 

[ecomindia]

) neither me .... bad karma ??? even my karmas will be under surveillance, whole my life..

 

[sitemaker]

If you owned it now, how would you monetize it?

(What sort of content/app to hold eyeballs without actually being the original wikileaks??)

 

[rambo3]

The USA government could use it for Press Releases.

 

[tekz999]

You snapped it for $5000. Then you earned $100 the first day on parking it. But you lose $100k for solicitation fees the day after. Epic pwned.

 

[DC20]

Now that would be a funny auction....everyone would want it but no one would know how to monetize the sucker. Great publicity for a new brand of diaper? Think of the coverage you would get (from the media, not the diaper)! lol

Speaking of that kind of thing, why doesn't the guy just auction it off to raise money, if he's not going to renew it anyway??? Bill O'Really would surely pay 5 figures to say how he did us all a favor by taking it off line. ...nah, I like the diaper idea better, less sh** to deal with. lol

DC20

 

[urlurl]

plumber directory?
wet basements?
leaky roofs?

 

[urlurl]

i "wiki" a generic term or is it Trade marked?

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

If it expires, who will have the balls to place the winning bid in the auction? I mean, I personally don't want to be involved in that domain name at all. I'm pretty sure the new owner will get his/her name listed in every government file there is and eventually get in trouble (e.g. not be allowed into the US). "Oh I don't have any involvement in Wikileaks.com at all, I'm just listed as the owner of the domain name!"..

 

[urlurl]

what if the new owner turned it around as the anti-wikileak site - or a discussion forum on the subject

 

[StianStian is verified member.]

what if the new owner turned it around as the anti-wikileak site - or a discussion forum on the subject

True. I wonder if I get to meet the president or something if I win the auction just so I can redirect it to whitehouse.gov?

 

[urlurl]

maybe i should call them first to see if its ok with them, not sure who to call first Hilary or Obama?

 

[dnm]

how can one tell how many backorders are already on this name?

 

[exponent]

is "wiki" a generic term or is it Trade marked?

"WIKI" is a generic term. It is a indigenous Hawaiian word for "fast".

 

[grcorp]

"WIKI" is a generic term. It is a indigenous Hawaiian word for "fast".

You just made my day. After years of dependence on a site which has "wiki" as its prefix, I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined that was what it meant.

Don't consider this to be legal advice... unless there was a trademark registered on the term "wikileaks" as a whole (a quick TESS search would prove this to be false), I can't picture why it is that a claim could be made against the new owner of the name.

Of course, just because the guy is in legal trouble, doesn't mean that he does not have the same rights as anybody else. I, personally would be 100% onside with acquiring the name for myself. I'd tell the lawyers and law enforcement to bring it on.

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If it expires, who will have the balls to place the winning bid in the auction? I mean, I personally don't want to be involved in that domain name at all. I'm pretty sure the new owner will get his/her name listed in every government file there is and eventually get in trouble (e.g. not be allowed into the US). "Oh I don't have any involvement in Wikileaks.com at all, I'm just listed as the owner of the domain name!"..

I'd like to know which law prohibits admission to those who own domain names with a controversial past.

The domain name can resolve to any website which the owner chooses. In Julian Assange's case, that was the wikileaks website which landed him into a heap of trouble. However, if the name under my control resolves to a parked page, and they want to deny me entrance to the US for that, I'd like to see them prosecute everybody else who owns a domain name leading to a parked page - the population of which is sure to amount to the hundreds of thousands or possibly millions.

If I were to own a car that used to belong to a drug dealer, would that make me guilty of the same crimes that the drug dealer committed, just by owning the car?

 

[urlurl]

i checked the Tess and CIPO and could not find a trademark for wikileaks on either (assuming i did it right) anybody know if ther is TM on wikileaks?

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Breaking News: wikileaks.com has just been aquired by Julian Assange today

sorry to all those hopefulls who thought they would be able to grab it.

 

[silentg]

All he has to do is forward the domain to the website.