Hoi,
The news is that you do not need the .org part anymore in the Latin script.
You mention that you do not know if it will be popular ... this is the kind
of thing that will slowly grow and then mushroom. Where you indicate that
domain names are squatted, there are procedures to gain those names. For a
project like Wikipedia it is obvious that we can gain specific domains.. The
thing is what word in Cyrillic or other script will be the one that we will
use.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/10/30 Nikola Smolenski <smolensk(a)eunet.rs>
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
According to an article on the BBC website, it is
now possible to have a
URL
that is completely in the script used for a
language. This means that a
Russian URL would be completely in the Cyrillic script and it would not
need
to end with .org.
I would like the Wikimedia Foundation to get the necessary domains to
support the scripts that we have language versions in. The BBC article
explains that people do find the need to move from one script to the
other
as problematic and cumbersome. Obviously, we can
have the necessary
mapping
from our current Latin based URLs to the ones in
other scripts. This will
be
an important feature because we want people to
easily move between our
projects.
I'm not sure how popular such domains will become. However, I believe at
least a few key ones should be registered, in order to prevent squatters
and protect the trademarks. It appears that
维基百科.com<http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.com>is already
registered, though it doesn't point anywhere.
维基百科.org<http://xn--3js032e7ich4g.org>is still free...
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