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Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by zeeone » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 8:34 AM UTC

ivan_i wrote: post #4

zeeone wrote: post #3

Internationalizing the domains names is utterly pointless. Most keyboards in the world are in latin, which means that people who use a different alphabet have to switch keyboard mode. It's just not convenient. Imagine this: > goole.com > Alt-Shift-Win (to switch) > говедо.ком > Alt-Shift-Win (switch back) Bah ... bulshit.

Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.

You're missing the point. The folks in the rural areas won't be able to use a computer in the first place, because the keyboards are in latin. I've never seen a Cyrillic or Arabic keyboard.

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by blasdel » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 9:14 AM UTC

ramchip wrote: post #8

vaksel wrote: post #6

oh please, like we are supposed to believe ICANN cares about internalization. The only reason they want to do this, is to make more money off the fees from the idiots who'll buy these crappy domains. We've seen hundreds of TLDs launched that were touted as game changers. .info, .biz, .us, and those are the big ones, and noone wants them. .COM is king, it is ingrained in internet users worldwide. Yes local countries h…

You'd be surprised. I'd say the vast majority of URLs I see around in Japan end in .jp. Hitting ctrl+enter after an URL will add www and .co.jp on most computers, not .com. Few people understand english sufficiently to browse the english-speaking internet; the best example is probably Facebook, which is rarely used here, while its local equivalent mixi.jp is extremely popular. Also, the QWERTY keyboard is just not th…

Facebook has extraordinarily good localizations, done primarily by their active users: http://www.facebook.com/translations/

Japaneses tastes are quite different when it comes to design, anonymity, and personal privacy -- and the divergent social network doesn't help anything.

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by nazgulnarsil » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 10:07 AM UTC

I call ಠ_ಠ.com

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by NikkiA » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 10:58 AM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #13

I call ಠ_ಠ.com

That was already feasible, this news is about punycoding of the TLD, punycode in the non-TLD portion was already allowed.

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by denik » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 10:59 AM UTC

zeeone wrote: post #11

ivan_i wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think that Google woudn't register something like гугл.рф? I think it's for folks from the pure rural areas who don't know the latin alphabet at all. They have a right to use computers and the internet too.

You're missing the point. The folks in the rural areas won't be able to use a computer in the first place, because the keyboards are in latin. I've never seen a Cyrillic or Arabic keyboard.

Every keyboard sold in Russia has both latin and cyrillic letters on it.

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by ilyak » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 11:10 AM UTC

denik wrote: post #15

zeeone wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're missing the point. The folks in the rural areas won't be able to use a computer in the first place, because the keyboards are in latin. I've never seen a Cyrillic or Arabic keyboard.

Every keyboard sold in Russia has both latin and cyrillic letters on it.

...and newer Windows default on the local (i.e. cyrillic) layout.

Some clueless linux distros even install cyrillic layout as the only one; which is completely unusable of course.

Re: Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web?

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Post by yangyang » Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 12:27 PM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #6

oh please, like we are supposed to believe ICANN cares about internalization. The only reason they want to do this, is to make more money off the fees from the idiots who'll buy these crappy domains. We've seen hundreds of TLDs launched that were touted as game changers. .info, .biz, .us, and those are the big ones, and noone wants them. .COM is king, it is ingrained in internet users worldwide. Yes local countries h…

> The QWERTY keyboard is the standard worldwide.

Try telling that to a frenchman.