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pkang0202
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 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: How Global should the Internet be? |
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb20080623_136988.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories
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| Also on the agenda is the possibility of introducing an unlimited number of new top-level domains, the technical term for the suffixes such as .com or .net tacked on to the ends of Internet addresses. One proposal would lift all restrictions, opening the way for domains such as .love or .hate. If ICANN approves the plan, Twomey says, the impact on the Net could be akin to what happened when TV went from a few channels to hundreds. |
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A World of Different Alphabets
If that country and others are to reach their goals of getting people in the world's remotest villages to use the Net, it's necessary to give Web sites names in scripts other than Roman, he says. To that end, ICANN is trying, during the meeting in Paris, to finalize a way to fast-track the introduction of domain names using a variety of different alphabets. |
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I_Am_The_Kiwi
Joined: 10 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| the bigger the better, as long as the protocols and infrastructure is in place to support it. |
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RufusW
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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Internet addresses are going to become less and less useful though. I don't type in an address - I just click on my favourite.
Having the 'best' name also shouldn't create more traffic - searching will (does?) increasingly ignore the name of the site, and instead searches content. Also, a website's popularity is defined by how good it is, not it's address.
Internet addresses should definitely be introduced in other scripts - but there'll always be a tendency towards English which will push out the rest (but it'll also mean a single worldwide language will be the future - a good thing in my perspective). |
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