Community domain request

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 14:17:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:57:07PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:01 AM, אלעד <el.il at doom.co.il> wrote:
> 
> >> The new proposed domain will be fedora.org.il
> 
> The Board doesn't like approving domains of fedora.org.<countrycode>,
> because that can lead to confusion with an official Fedora domain in
> the country. We would be happy to either use il.fedoracommunity.org
> (which you've already declined), or something else - it can contain
> the word fedora, however, it cannot be fedora.org.il or
> fedoraproject.org.il absent some compelling reason.

But note that any use of the word "fedora" in a domain is subject to
the requirements of a trademark license agreement:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Domain_names
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Local_community_domains#Self-purchased_domain

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