Wow. Wait. What?

Two weeks ago, we had a FOSDEM staff meeting and we decided to make work of registering the FOSDEM domain names for the most common TLD’s. We noticed that the fosdem.com domain was registered by OpenDomain. I contacted them, a bit hesitating about their intentions, but I almost immediately received the kindest reply from Ric Johnson. He wanted to transfer the fosdem.com domain name to the FOSDEM organization, no strings attached! Thank you Ric!
If you want to know more about OpenDomain, please visit their website at http://opendomain.org.

The fosdem.be domain name was registered by Wouter Coekaerts, known for his contributions to the irssi IRC client. Jan VB contacted him, and he immediately agreed to transfer it to us. Also a big thank you to you, Wouter!

FOSDEM was very lucky that these domains were registered by people with good intentions. They could have been registered by a domain squatter, and we would probably have lost those domains forever. Such things teach you a valuable lesson. Please make sure that, if you start a project, you immediately keep the most important TLD’s from being registered by squatters.

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