Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
One of the major takeaways from the Web Globalization Report Card is the importance of providing “front doors” to your localized websites. These doors begin with the addresses themselves, which may not include the .com domain. In fact, I’d recommend …
Verisign has owned rights to the .com domain for many years, and profited enormously. So it’s no surprise that the company has been eager to see continued profits from language/script-specific equivalents of .com. So it has recently pushed ahead with …
Country codes are still adding registrations but the more developed markets are seeing a decline in growth rate. Shown below is a visual from the registry behind the .FR domain: Of course, AFNIC is keen to point out that the …
Country codes (ccTLDs) provide local and regional “front doors” to websites. They also can be used as local brand extensions, as shown here with Amazon: Not surprisingly, country code registries are proponents of ccTLDs. But I thought this visual was …
In this interview with Blake Irving, CEO of GoDaddy, he mentions the company’s focus on expanding global reach: We’re localizing, globalizing and marketizing our code base which means we’re building software for specific languages and markets. Take Spanish, for example. …
Speaking of country codes, I’ve been meaning to mention this. Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) now offers users an impressive range of country code domains. Here’s the full list of supported country codes. It appears that Microsoft is using geolocation to enforce …