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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome.  Thanks Wayne.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 6:35 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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