We've acquired wikipedia.es through a trademark enforcement action.

I'd recommend directing the domain to es.wikipedia.org, unless we'd like to set up a portal for Spain with other language options for the region. What do you think?

Change 243099 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dzahn):
add wikipedia.es with link to wikipedia.org

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/243099

@BBlack in these cases, where it's straight wikipedia in a language TLD, it seems to be worth a bit more than the other "junk" domains. I'd feel we want to keep them working and get them on certs, or do you feel the same here as on say.. the wiki.voyage comment or about wikiartpedia.biz.? I feel there are levels of junk-ness and this is a nice redirect.

It's just not feasible for us to purchase individual certs for these. There are a couple hundred language domains. This is not canonical. Nobody knows to reach us at this address, and they don't ever need to start thinking it's a valid way to reach us.

Ok. I amended the change to reflect that and turn it into another "just parking" change.

Change 243099 merged by Dzahn:
add wikipedia.es as parked domain

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/243099

@Slaporte I added wikipedia.es to our DNS (parked). I see in whois that we own it but MarkMonitor has not switched it to point to our DNS servers yet, which means users still get that redirect from the squatter. Can you tell them to switch it or should i mail Doneva Dagget?

@Platonides see above ^. Once the name servers are switched over to us the old squatter redirect should disappear. It won't redirect to es.wikipedia.org either though.

The name servers still haven't been switched.

adding Jacob Rogers (legal) to some domain related tickets

We still have an issue with getting replies on domain related tickets (T105829) etc.

In T101060#2062292, @Dzahn wrote:

We still have an issue with getting replies on domain related tickets (T105829) etc.

In T101060#1698243, @Dzahn wrote:

I see in whois that we own it but MarkMonitor has not switched it to point to our DNS servers yet, which means users still get that redirect from the squatter. Can you tell them to switch it or should i mail Doneva Dagget?

I think that, for such routine technical questions, ops should contact MarkMonitor directly. Adding an intermediary with less knowledge of technical matters can only worsen the communication flow. If MarkMonitor complains that they want a single point of contact then you can open a discussion about setting up a functioning one, but for now better just try direct communication I'd say.

Looks like this question has solved itself because meanwhile nameservers have been updated:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikipedia.es.		86338	IN	NS	ns2.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.es.		86338	IN	NS	ns0.wikimedia.org.
wikipedia.es.		86338	IN	NS	ns1.wikimedia.org.

In general i think it's better if a single team does the whole process with MarkMonitor.