IDNs become a presidential issue
Nick Wilsdon at Multilingual Search quotes a Russian news story in which Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev says “We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in …
Domain names
The world’s most dangerous country codes
McAfee has released a report that rates the world’s top level domains in terms of overall risk to the Web user — from browser exploits, phishing Web sites, excessive pop-ups, …
Poland joins the million domain club
Poland (.pl) announced last week that it joined the million domain club by registering its one-millionth ccTLD. The reason for the sudden surge in registrations is Poland’s easing of the …
Web globalization webinar follow-up
The Lionbridge webinar yesterday has been archived for those of you who couldn’t make it. You can register to listen to the call at the Lionbridge site. And mark your …
Even the Vatican uses a splash global gateway
I took a moment to visit the Vatican recently at www.vatican.va. And here is what I saw — a splash global gateway: The splash gateway offers six languages: English, German, …
Google is Microsoft
This comes via my brother via Blogoscoped — Google has made interesting use of the Iceland country code to create a URL that packs a narrative: Check out out here: …
GoDaddy launching the summer of .ME
GoDaddy is building up to a major promotion of the new .ME domain. According to its Web site, the domain should be available for registration over the summer, with an …
.CN: From 2 million to 10 million in 12 months
China is on pace to surpass Germany as the world’s most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) — in about two or three months. Germany currently leads with roughly 11.5 …
Isn’t Andorra in Africa?
The Onion has an entertaining video clip that highlights the never-ending challenge of keeping track of all those countries in the world. In this case, the video pokes fun at …
Japan joins the million domain club
Japan recently surpassed one million country code (.jp) registrations. In doing so, it joins the following countries who also have more than a million country code registrations: Argentina (.ar) Australia …
Country Codes of the World in Communication Arts
Just a quick note to announce that our Country Codes of the World poster was featured this week in the exhibits section of Communication Arts magazine — one of the …
It’s all about .me
Domain registry Afilias has won the rights, along with partners GoDaddy and the Montenegrin organization ME-Net to market and sell the new .ME domain later this year. .ME promises to …
.FR reaches one million registrations
France became a member of the million domain club with its one-millionth .fr registration on January 11th. Here are the top six country codes based on registrations: Germany: 11,120,000 China: …
Most popular posts of 2007
I’ve had Google Analytics installed on this site for some time now, which makes it a great resource for tracking the most popular posts of the year. So here are …
Web globalization predictions: 2008 and beyond
As we come to the end of 2007, it is safe to say that Web globalization has evolved from an ancillary activity to a core piece of the marketing puzzle …