Kurt wrote:
Indeed, this is really strange. Jimbo, how could
this happen?
Because whoever registered wikipedia.de didn't renew the registration.
AFAIK
wikipedia.de was never owned by nor ever an official Wikimedia domain
name.
So its fate was in the hands of whoever registered it.
Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is
supported by a perusal of the list archives: