On Nov 3, 2003, at 19:20, Daniel Mayer wrote:
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:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)