.Com turns 150
As in 150 million. According to Verisign, there are now more than 150 million registrations of .com (of which I account for about a dozen): .Com remains the most popular …
As in 150 million. According to Verisign, there are now more than 150 million registrations of .com (of which I account for about a dozen): .Com remains the most popular …
Hard to believe, but the country code for France turned 34 last week. There are now roughly 3.6 million registrations in use. Where has the time gone? Yet I must …
As a small (but growing) number of companies terminate their dot-brand registrations, it’s fair to ask if dot-brands are a dot-bust. It’s starting to appear that way. Though the fault …
Great article by the BBC about email vs. mobile apps in China — and why email is losing out to the most popular apps. It’s important for Westerners such as …
For the 2020 Web Globalization Report Card, I benchmarked the following 7 professional services websites: Accenture Capgemini Deloitte Ernst & Young Goldman Sachs KPMG PwC Deloitte emerged number one overall, …
Very interesting article by John Herrman in the New York Times about the rise of Chinese sellers on Amazon and their very interesting choices of brand names. From the article… …
I began the Report Card back in 2003 because, at the time, there was nothing out there that focused specifically on the globalization and localization of websites. And, to be …
For those of you keeping track, this is the 16th edition of this report. Thanks to everyone who has supported it all these years! More soon…
Thanks to a heads-up from Ali at CircleID, I discovered a new report by Oxford Information Labs (sponsored by the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries. The Council of …
For the 2019 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied the following 16 automotive websites: Audi BMW Chevrolet Ford Honda Hyundai Land Rover Lexus Mercedes Mini Nissan Subaru Tesla Toyota Volkswagen …
A little more than 15 years ago, I began benchmarking websites for a new report I had in mind, tentatively titled the Web Globalization Report Card. The number one website in …
If you are flying the Taiwan flag on your website, consider yourself warned. By China. As I’ve written many times over the past year, China is paying close attention to …
Successful website globalization is all about asking questions. A key point I stress in Think Outside the Country is that nobody knows everything. Nobody can know everything. And you should …
For quite some time people have asked me about creating a larger version of our Country Codes of the World map, something they could pin up in their conference rooms …
I’m happy to announce that I’ve updated my map of the world’s internationalized domain names for 2018: The map includes all ICANN-approved country code IDNs for the world — more …