It’s nice to see GoDaddy improving its global gateway. Note the use of the globe icon below to indicate the global gateway menu: Click on the globe or locale name and you’ll see the following menu: It’s text-only, easy to…
You can be a wildly successful global company and still have a poorly localized website. A number of factors determine global success and the website is only one of these factors — unless of course you’re an Internet-based company (you’ll…
I’ve long talked about the importance of non-Latin domain names, or IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names). Google has gone live with one if its many IDNs: みんな. I want to emphasize here that this is a top-level IDN — that is, the…
My latest post for client Pitney Bowes on localizing for Canada. An excerpt: As they begin their global expansion, American companies often select Canada first under the assumption that the market will be easier to succeed in than more distant…