domain name with fedora in it

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 17:12:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:59:34AM -0400, andy york wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> After becoming more involved with Fedora, it has come to my attention
> that permission is required to use the word "fedora" in a domain name.
> This was unknown to me prior to this week. I'm writing to request an
> agreement form for the domain name FEDORAGEEKS.COM which I have owned
> for some time already. Thus far I have only used it as a developmental
> site, but am considering putting up some content and don't want to
> waste time uselessly. Any help with this will be appreciated.
> 
> I can be reached via email or at 919 632-7084 if need be.

Andy, I'll be happy to work with you on this.  What I would suggest is
that you take a look at our guidelines page first, and I'll email you
out of band to get some more details about your site.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Domain_names

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