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Say hello to the first .google domain

March 29, 2016 by John Yunker

Google announced the launch of domains.google. today, not a new service but a newly “domained” service. I think it’s fitting that the first public use of .google is applied to …

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Categories Google, gTLDs

Go global with .INTERNATIONAL? I don’t think so.

May 12, 2014 by John Yunker

GoDaddy is marketing the new top-level domain INTERNATIONAL. This is one TLD that I can’t imagine recommending to anyone. For starters, you don’t need this domain to go global. Every TLD …

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Categories China, Domain names, GoDaddy

dotConfusing — What you need to know about the next wave of top-level domains

May 7, 2014 by John Yunker

My latest post for client Pitney Bowes on making sense of the hype concerning the new generic TLDs. An excerpt: The first wave is rolling in More than 1,200 gTLDs have …

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Categories China, Country Codes, GoDaddy, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Pitney Bowes

The next Internet revolution will not be in English

August 28, 2013 by John Yunker

Imagine if, every time you wanted to visit a website, you were expected to type in letters from a foreign language, or worse, an entirely foreign script, such as Arabic, …

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Categories Apple, China, Country Codes, Global By Design, Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Japan, Languages, Russia, Web Globalization

ICANN strikes domain name gold (updated)

September 12, 2012June 13, 2012 by John Yunker

The registration period for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), names like .google and .nyc, has been open for a short while and it appears that ICANN has won the lottery. According …

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Categories Apple, Arabic, Country Codes, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Microsoft

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