Jeff,

Regarding priorities: it's not "meh."

It's not a minor detail. It is ostensibly a priority for WPF that a certain reputation and philosophy be tied to the WordPress name. Thus, protecting the use of that name is critically important. With both reputation and trademark, if you don't protect them, you will lose control of them.

The creation of the WordPress Foundation to own the trademarks of the WordPress project is a fantastic development, because it will allow those involved to focus their efforts where they are most effective and beneficial.

That said, if Matt is so busy with making WordPress the most awesome product that it is (and make no mistake: he's done a wonderful job in that regard) to be able to fulfill the necessary duties of trademark ownership, then, in the best interests of the project, he needs to hand off (or delegate) those responsibilities to another.

Please don't mistake that comment as a knock against Matt. He's great at what he does, and WordPress is awesome under his leadership. And honestly, I don't think very many people in this world could wear both of those hats effectively.

But protecting the WordPress trademark simply has to be one of the top priorities of the WPF. If Matt believes that his efforts are not best-spent focusing on that priority, then, for the good of the project, he needs to appoint someone who can focus on that priority, through the WPF.

I think getting the .com.in domain taken down is great news, because a known, malicious, exploitative, trademark-infringing domain being allowed to exist for three years is, quite simply, inexcusable.