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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not going to push my luck on this.  I am still not sure what
Digikey's agenda is so I am approaching this cautiously.  If they show a
willingness to work with the project, I may suggest this but getting
them to redirect kicad.org would be a good first step.

On 8/30/2016 7:19 AM, Kaspar Emanuel wrote:
> 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 <http://kicad.org> instead of redirecting.
> 
> On 30 August 2016 at 00:37, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Awesome.  Thanks Wayne.
> 
> 
>     On Mon, Aug 29, 2016, 6:35 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto: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 <http://kicad.org> domain because they had
>         customers that got malware on
>         their computers who typed kicad.org <http://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 <http://kicad.org> to
>         kicad-pcb.org <http://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>
>         > <mailto:jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>>>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         >     kicad.org <http://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>
>         >     <http://kicad-pcb.org> instead, or
>         >     donate it to the project.
>         >
>         >     I too many times have typed kicad.org <http://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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