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Month: October 2014

Is your global gateway stuck in the basement?

October 30, 2014October 29, 2014 by John Yunker

When you welcome visitors into your home, you probably don’t usher them directly to the basement. Yet when it comes to websites, this is exactly how many companies treat visitors from around the …

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Categories Apple, Global By Design, Global navigation, Microsoft, Web Globalization

Bulgaria (at long last) gets it own internationalized domain name (IDN)

October 27, 2014 by John Yunker

Five years ago, Bulgaria applied for an IDN but was denied by ICANN on the basis of “string similarity” with the country code of Brazil. Here is the Bulgarian IDN side …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

You say Sea of Japan. I say East Sea.

October 22, 2014 by John Yunker

Who said the life of a map maker isn’t interesting? Every other day it seems there is another disputed territory, which usually means another disputed name. I’ve already mentioned the …

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Categories Google, Microsoft

Apple continues to neglect its global gateway

October 9, 2014October 8, 2014 by John Yunker

Every time Apple updates its web design (which it did recently) I get hopeful that the global gateway will receive a similar upgrade. But this has not yet happened. Apple’s global …

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Categories Apple, Global navigation

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