The coming gTLD explosion (or not)
ICANN, the folks who manage Internet domains, recently decided to open up the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space to anyone …
Month: June 2008
Two thoughts on Euro 2008 and Web globalization
Congratulations to Spain for emerging on top of Euro 2008. I can’t say that I was pulling for any one …
Changing the face of the Internet — one ccTLD at a time
Simon Johnson, co-founder of Domainer Income, interviewed me by phone recently on our Country Codes of World map. If you’re …
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IDNs become a presidential issue
Nick Wilsdon at Multilingual Search quotes a Russian news story in which Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev says “We must do …
Apple iPhone 3G illustrates the value of a global design template
Apple today announced the iPhone 3G — a tri-band phone that will operate in most countries around the world. So …
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Google Adwords unavailable (in 17 languages)
I tried to login to Google Adwords recently and was met with the following “temporarily unavailable” Web page: The page …
The world’s most dangerous country codes
McAfee has released a report that rates the world’s top level domains in terms of overall risk to the Web …
2008 Global Intranet Survey invitation
Jane McConnell of NetStrategy/JMC is working on the third annual edition of the Global Intranet & Portal Strategies Survey and …