2009/1/17 Marcus Buck me@marcusbuck.org:
On November 4 2003 Jimbo Wales announced, that 200 EUR were donated to register European domain names (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-November/012981.html). Did this ever happen? I wonder, cause as far as I know, many domains are still not registered by people affiliated with Wikimedia (.ru, .es, .co.uk, .it [.it at least redirects to Wikipedia]).
If the 200 EUR were spent for domains: Which ones? If they were not: we should make up that and spend the earmarked donation (plus additional money if needed) to obtain those domains (and ideally all wikipedia.xx domains).
wikipedia.co.uk is apparently owned by Bomis, which seems a little strange - wasn't everything transferred over to WMF? wikimedia.co.uk is owned by James Forrester, a Wikimedian wikipedia.org.uk is owned by Chris Brooking, a name I don't recognise (and the domain appears to be dead) wikimedia.org.uk is owned by James Forrester (and may be transferred to Wikimedia UK - I believe we're waiting for a response for James on that one) The .net.uk names are apparently both registered, but have no site attached to them and no name given.
I haven't checked other European domains, or the domains for other projects, but it seems we aren't doing too badly in the UK.