Daniel Mayer schrieb:
Brion wrote:
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo
owned it,
which is supported by a perusal of the list archives:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
Well that changes everything (I missed that email).
Wow, Mav, you've got a great memory if you can remember that you missed
it! I often forget what was discussed a few months ago, even if it was
my own mail.
So the question persists why the registration wasn't renewed. If it was
the providers fault it might be easier to get it back.
I don't agree with his
decision but what is done is done. Precedent has been set and now we will
have to pony up the money to reactivate wikipedia.de and also start to buy up
other country code wikipedia domains as well (prioritizing based on use/size
of the particular language versions).
Sigh. IMO that would be money better spent on hardware.
I don't think so. Most people are irritated by domain names like
de.wikipedia.org because there's no www. (btw could we let
www.de.wikipedia.org redirect to
de.wikipedia.org, please?) The casual
German surfer enters www. company name .de and would be very irritated
to see porn advertisements or something like that instead of what he or
she expected.
The idea to let Wikipedians own those domains sounds interesting, but I
predict a lot of trouble sooner or later if one of them leaves the
project in anger and uses it for something else.
Kurt