Wikipedia release completes the domain name migration announcement

News and technology information Beijing time March 11, according to foreign media reports, Wikipedia's parent company, non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation Law team lawyer Michael Bolsen (Michelle Paulson) in Friday through the blog published articles, Announced that the Wikipedia domain name has been all from the domain name registration service provider GoDaddy moved out.

Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, announced last year that Wikipedia would shift its current domain name in GoDaddy because it was unable to accept the position of Wales to support the US crackdown on Cyber Piracy Act (Stop Piracy Online Act).

The controversial bill has been opposed by internet giants such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook, and Wikipedia has clearly expressed its opposition. There are reports that, because GoDaddy support the law, has tens of thousands of of sites from GoDaddy to remove the domain name.

The following is a post-migration announcement of Wikipedia:

After months of deliberate and complex migrations, the Wikipedia domain name portfolio has been successfully migrated from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The domain name migration was officially completed in Friday on March 9, 2012. The domain name migration process is consistent and there are no service interruptions or other problems with our site.

As a provider of the world's fifth largest web site, the Wikimedia Foundation is very concerned about domain name issues. We have been considering the migration from GoDaddy, our legal department that the domain name service provider can not best meet our domain requirements, so from February 2011 onwards, we actively look for other domain name Management service providers. The crackdown on cyber piracy is a controversial anti-piracy bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, and GoDaddy's initial support for the bill has strengthened our resolve to end our partnership.

After discussing multiple candidates, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal team has determined that MarkMonitor can best provide the full range of services we need. MarkMonitor is a U.S. domain name registrar, with offices in San Francisco, with extensive experience in managing other large-flow domain names. The company can help the Wikimedia Foundation to consolidate and centralize all of its domain names, provide the services necessary to manage the global domain name portfolio, and better protect our domain names with quality security features.

The Wikimedia Foundation has used MarkMonitor brand protection services, and we find that its customer support team is dedicated and works well. Use their domain name management services to ensure that Wikipedia's trademark and domain name combinations work more efficiently.

In this regard, we are very impressed with MarkMonitor, and believe that we have the domain name of Wikipedia to a competent company to manage.