Someone needs to bring the Wikipedia:FAQ up to date. I quote:
----- Why is wikipedia.org redirected to wikipedia.com and not the other way around?
It was a matter of honesty. Bomis, the company owned by Wikipedia patron Jimbo Wales, hoped to make Wikipedia profitable, or at least cover the costs of operation. At one point, Jimbo was planning on placing unobtrustive advertisements on Wikipedia, but that plan has since been abandoned. There is now serious talk about forming a non-profit organization for the Wikipedia project.
Also, it may simply be for convienence. If one domain was the first one purchased, and the second domain was added later, it makes sense to create the second domain as a pointer, instead of switching the new domain to be the primary domain. There is no implication, restriction or enforcement of the .org, .com and .net top level domains. -----
-Karl
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