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Month: November 2011

Some companies have given up on Spanish for the US

November 28, 2011 by John Yunker

I’ve been revisiting a number of the websites that at one point were localized specifically for Spanish speakers in the US. And now I’m finding dead links. Home Depot had a site located at homedepotespanol.com and Lowe’s had one at …

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Categories Translation, US Hispanic Market, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

From Russia, with IDNs

November 22, 2011 by John Yunker

A little more than a year ago, Russia opened up registration for its top-level IDN: рф. Since then, more than 900,000 domains have been registered, making this the most successful IDN by far. I’ve always been quick to stress that …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Russia

Users don’t change settings — so you better guess right

November 19, 2011 by John Yunker

There’s a good article on Brainsparks about how rarely users get around to changing their default computer settings. “Less than 5% of the users we surveyed had changed any settings at all.” This statistic has great relevance to web globalization. …

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Categories Global navigation

From Morocco to Malaysia, IDN growth continues

March 31, 2013November 9, 2011 by John Yunker

ICANN recently approved Malaysia’s Arabic IDN (internationalized domain name), bringing the number of countries or territories with approved IDNs to 29. Here is the full list. As shown here, Malaysia joins a growing club of IDN holders!   And here’s …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

ADP’s global gateway combines globe and flag icons

November 3, 2011 by John Yunker

Payroll services company ADP demonstrates that you don’t necessarily have to choose between using a flag icon or using a globe icon on your global gateway. As shown below, the company uses both: And here is the Brazil home page: …

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Categories Global navigation, Web Globalization

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