Brion Vibber wrote:
We would certainly prefer it if he'd like to transfer ownership of the domain to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Just changing the name servers is a little risky, since it's easy to lose track of the various domain ownerships, and it might end up not getting renewed or transferred out from under the current owner -- and the next owner might not be as friendly.
As with most other country domains, we'd probably set up either a redirect or a portal page, depending on what seems the most appropriate for the linguistic situation.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
Noted, I have conveyed the message (I have already sent him an e-mail including the link to this thread in the archives, but I'm not sure how much time he has to dig into this conversation). I don't think that risk is significant, because there's no renewal for Romanian TLDs, but if WMF is willing (and apparently glad) to take ownership, that would certainly serve the project better than any individual could.
Cheers, Gutza