Re: Re: European domains

Ralesk Ne'vennoyx <[email protected]>
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Walter Vermeir wrote:

> Serge Bibauw wrote:
> 
>  > In this case, Gandi won't be useful because it only registers .be as
> 
>> national domain (and there's no "Belgian" language, so no "Belgian" 
>> wikipedia...). (Bad thing, because Gandi is a faithful registrar.)
> 
> 
> It is true there is no "Belgian language", but there Belgian Wikipedians 
> and Belgian wikipedia users. In Belgium, like I think in most nations, a 
> internet user will think about the country domain first.
> 
> Most users know only 2 TLD's,  .XX (national TLD) and .com
> 
> Wikipedia.be is the logical domain if you are from Belgium.
> 
> 
> (wikipedia.be is now the property of Wikimedia)

Question is, which language it should link to.

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