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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I already am in contact with Digikey and am waiting for a response.
According to Digikey, they paid ~5K (I have no way of verifying this)
for the kicad.org domain because they had customers that got malware on
their computers who typed kicad.org.  Digikey has done us a favor and I
have offered to add them to the list of corporate sponsors if they would
be willing to redirect kicad.org to kicad-pcb.org.  They seemed amicable
to the idea.  It's been about a week since I've heard from them.  I may
ping them in another week or so to see if they are still interested.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 8/29/2016 7:17 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> I know some people at Digikey.  I'll send them an email tonight.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Aug 29, 2016 6:03 PM, "José Ignacio" <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     kicad.org <http://kicad.org> used to be a "domain for sale" landing
>     page for a long
>     while, but looks like in July it was acquired by DigiKey and made to
>     redirect to http://digikey.com. Maybe it would be a good idea to ask
>     them nicely if they could redirect it to kicad-pcb.org
>     <http://kicad-pcb.org> instead, or
>     donate it to the project.
> 
>     I too many times have typed kicad.org <http://kicad.org> when I
>     wanted to reach kicad's
>     website and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
> 
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