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Just to add my experience with Ubuntu Community Council and Canonical . The
domain Ubuntu-sg.org is owned by Canonical , actually
ubuntu-[country-code].org is official loco domain but Ubuntu.sg is mine. A
simple whois can verify the owner and the date of registration. Yet neither
Canonical nor Ubuntu Council has sent me or the Singapore team any requests
for releasing the domain to them.

OpenStack.my (Malaysian Group) domain is owned by a non rackspace/
openstack.org entity/person as well. Thats why I asked why was
openstack.sgregistered by rackspace , same for
openstack.com.sg. So I have no choice but to go for OpenStack-SG.org.


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Stefano,
>
>
> On 03/27/2013 01:21 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
>
>> This is something the OpenStack Foundation needs to investigate. These
>> domains (and openstack-sg.com) need to be owned by the foundation as the
>> trademark is owned by the Foundation, not by Rackspace.
>>
>
> Interesting - in the GNOME project we have a trademark process for
> community groups, which includes permission to register domain names
> containing the trademark, subject to certain terms and conditions. My
> understanding is that the site does not need to be owned by the foundation,
> but that the foundation must approve each use of its trademarks - not quite
> the same thing.
>
> Would there be a possibility to include using an OpenStack related URL in
> the OpenStack trademark policy: http://www.openstack.org/**
> brand/openstack-trademark-**policy/<http://www.openstack.org/brand/openstack-trademark-policy/>or perhaps create a community group trademark agreement for user groups?
>
> The current agreement says:
> "Third parties may use the OpenStack Word Mark in publications [...]
> provided that:
> [...]
> You do not apply to register or register any term comprised or consisting
> of in whole or in part the OpenStack Word Mark or any confusingly similar
> mark as trademarks, service marks, corporate names, trade names or domain
> names, Internet keywords, metatags, or trigger words to lead to a website
> or other Internet destination."
>
> This seems very broad, considering the extent to which OpenStack has been
> adopted in URLs and metatags to assist in SEO. Something which allows fan
> sites and local user group sites to sprout up would be, I think, better.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave.
>
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