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Month: June 2008

The coming gTLD explosion (or not)

June 30, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreThe coming gTLD explosion (or not)

Categories Country Codes, Domain names, Web Globalization

Two thoughts on Euro 2008 and Web globalization

June 29, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreTwo thoughts on Euro 2008 and Web globalization

Categories China, Google, Languages, Translation, Web Globalization

Changing the face of the Internet — one ccTLD at a time

June 28, 2008 by John Yunker

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

Categories Country Codes, Domain names

IDNs become a presidential issue

June 16, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreIDNs become a presidential issue

Categories China, Domain names, Russia

Apple iPhone 3G illustrates the value of a global design template

June 9, 2008 by John Yunker

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

Categories Apple, iPhone, Web Globalization

Google Adwords unavailable (in 17 languages)

June 8, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreGoogle Adwords unavailable (in 17 languages)

Categories China, Events, Google, Software Localization, US Hispanic Market, Web Globalization

The world’s most dangerous country codes

June 5, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreThe world’s most dangerous country codes

Categories Domain names

2008 Global Intranet Survey invitation

June 4, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Web Globalization

Translating numbers in China

June 1, 2008 by John Yunker

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, …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Culture, Translation

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