[Wikipedia-l] Re: .eu domains perhaps?

[Daniel Mayer]

Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>It's stupid to send money for nothing; 

That would be true *if* we got nothing from buying .eu domains. When we 
finally have a Wikimedia affiliate set-up in Europe, that organization can 
promote Wikipedia rather effectively in Europe by pointing people to 
http://wikipedia.eu/. The future portal at http://wikipedia.org will have 
*all* wikipedia languages on it and would therefore be less effective for 
Wikipedia promotion in Europe.  

Given that even without translated PayPal interfaces that Euros are our second 
biggest source of cash, I think that giving Wikimedia Europe the ability to 
tailor their promotion efforts to Europeans would be a very good thing to do. 

>also it depends on the context whether you 
>think that's much money or not. 

Oh please - Unless some type of high Internet tax is added, I would be very 
surprised if .eu domains would be more than 25 Euros/year in two years' time. 
On average every day we take-in more money than that *just* in Euros! 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)