ICANN, the folks who manage Internet domains, recently decided to open up the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space to anyone who can afford it and can navigate ICANN’s complex approval process. gTLDs are those domains to the right of the …
Congratulations to Spain for emerging on top of Euro 2008. I can’t say that I was pulling for any one team, but I would have loved to have seen Germany score a last-second goal to keep the tournament alive. Being …
Simon Johnson, co-founder of Domainer Income, interviewed me by phone recently on our Country Codes of World map. If you’re curious about how the map came to be — as well as what areas of the world .me, .bv, and …
Read moreChanging the face of the Internet — one ccTLD at a time
Nick Wilsdon at Multilingual Search quotes a Russian news story in which Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev says “We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name — it is …
Apple today announced the iPhone 3G — a tri-band phone that will operate in most countries around the world. So it’s no surprise that Apple wants to sell the iPhone in as many of these countries as quickly as possible. …
Read moreApple iPhone 3G illustrates the value of a global design template
I tried to login to Google Adwords recently and was met with the following “temporarily unavailable” Web page: The page illustrates one of the many the challenges of managing a Web site that supports so many languages. Even something supposedly …
McAfee has released a report that rates the world’s top level domains in terms of overall risk to the Web user — from browser exploits, phishing Web sites, excessive pop-ups, and other nasty things. The report finds that “19.2% of …
Jane McConnell of NetStrategy/JMC is working on the third annual edition of the Global Intranet & Portal Strategies Survey and she needs your input. If you are not familiar with the survey, you can read some key observations from 2007 …
As John wrote awhile back: All lucky numbers are local. And this is particularly true in China, where people pay thousands of dollars to obtain license plates with lucky numbers. So when it comes to naming products or setting prices, …