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...