Re: [Reps-General] Mozilla community domains kidnapped

[Carlos Valim Coragem]

Hello Nukeador,

Damn! I didn't know it. It's embarassing. :(

On 14th January I opened a bug for register the domain
mozilla-esperanto.org. I hope it will be hosted on Mozilla network. Of
course, it will be safer not only for Mozilla but for the community in
general.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841589

Cheers!
Coragem

> Hi,
>
> I didn't think this was a big problem, but in the last month I've seen
> more than 5 community domains being kidnapped by external people to
> mozilla.
>
> The typical situation is like this:
>
> * Someone (sometimes a company) offers a domain and hosting for free
> to a community.
> * After a few years the current community wants to move the domain and
> hosting to mozilla IT hands.
> * The real owner ask for money to do the ownership transfer even he
> told the domain was for free in the first place.
>
> Sometimes this money is just the cost for the domain over the years, but
> sometimes it's a crazy amount.
>
> These situations are getting me really angry, because as more and more
> communities want to transfer domains to Mozilla IT hands, we are seeing
> more and more situations like this.
>
> So:
>
> * If you community domain is not owned by mozilla, ask for ownership
> transfer
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Reps&component=Community%20IT%20Requests>
> ASAP.
> * If the current owner asks for money and the amount is fair to avoid
> problems, open also a budget request via Reps
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/form.reps.budget> and reference it on
> the ownership transfer bug. Yeah, it hurts to pay to someone who has
> lied to us, but sometimes is better to avoid a long legal process.
> * If the amount is crazy, open a bug for ownership transfer
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Reps&component=Community%20IT%20Requests>
> and explain the situation so we can ping legal team to take care of
> these abuses.
>
> I'm also in favour of making a public list of people/companies that were
> abusing this way of our communities.
>
> Regards.
>
> --
> Rubén Martín [Nukeador]
> Mozilla Reps Mentor
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[Gen Kanai]

Important note:

If you are filing a domain registration request bug with Mozilla, please
be sure to mark it as "Company Confidential" (like a security bug) until
the domain is secured. That way no one else can grab the domain until
Mozilla completes the domain registration.

Once the registration is complete, the bug can be marked public (like a
security bug that has been fixed.)

Gen

[Carlos Valim Coragem]

Hello Gen,

Thanks for the tip. I'll do it right now.

Cheers!
Coragem

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