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[Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne, I think if they are up for being sponsors you should push for
transferring the domain proper so the main site can actually be kicad.org
instead of redirecting.

On 30 August 2016 at 00:37, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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