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 is already registered, though it doesn't point anywhere. 维基百科.org is still free...