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Month: March 2014

GoDaddy’s new global gateway sets the stage for global growth

March 26, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Global navigation, GoDaddy, Web Globalization

The worst global websites of the 2014 Web Globalization Report Card

March 10, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Global By Design, Global navigation, Retail globalization, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Google launches its first Japanese IDN

March 6, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Country Codes, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Japan, Web Globalization

Localizing your website for Canada: It’s more challenging than you might think

January 18, 2018March 5, 2014 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

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