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