[Wikipedia-l] www.wikipedia.de points to domain seller

Tue Nov 4 03:34:17 UTC 2003

On Nov 3, 2003, at 19:20, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Kurt 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.

Various people are under the impression that Jimbo owned it, which is 
supported by a perusal of the list archives:

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/intlwiki-l/2002-June/000465.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)