There are better things to spend money on. Like TV commercials. :)
~S~
Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
Daniel Mayer 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.
That's right. The person who registered it offered it to me, at a
high price ($500 as I recall, but I could be mistaken about that).
Wikimedia already has a whole bunch of domain names
that have to be
paid for (and renewed). If we purchase wikipedia.de then to be fair
then we would have to do for every other wikipedia.xx where xx
corresponds to country code that is also a language code we
use. That is a lot of domain names for Wikimedia to pay for.
I think it's actually a good idea to do that.
But there is nothing stopping individual Wikipedians
from buying
these domain names and redirecting them to us. Just don't depend on
that domain name redirect working indefinitely.
Wait! Since we have a functioning system for donations, it is a *lot*
better now to just donate money and let me know that you want it to be
used for thus-and-such a registration. That way, the domain belongs
to the Wikimedia Foundation from the outset, and we don't have to worry
about random lapses.
I hope some German-speakers will research who now has wikimedia.de, so
we can approach them and hope that they are charitably inclined to
give it to us. We could reimburse them for the expenses they have
already in terms of registration, or they could just make a gift out
of support for our universal ideals.
--Jimbo
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