Good comments all, but I also seem to recall a trend prediction that
claimed that by the middle to end of this century, there will will be
three languages remaining in the world. English, spanish and manderin
(chinese). The reduction of the worlds languages was predominately caused
by the internet. Of course, I seriously doubt many of us will be around
by the time this all occurs and the multiple alphabet issue still applies.
- Bob
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> I feel it's the other way. It allows the internet to truly be global.
> There's no reason why names should be English only. If my site is targeting
> Taiwanese or Japanese users only, why should my domain name have to be in
> English? Users whose native language is NOT english would love to be able
> to type in the domain in their native language. Names in your own language
> are much easier to remember. It makes perfect sense.
>
> And there is no reason why a site cannot have more than one domain name
> pointing to their site, so multi-lingual sites can have both an english
> domain name and a non-english one. More sales opportunities to resellers,
> too... ;-)
>
> (English users trying to access a non-english domain name can still do so,
> but the string of codes won't be easy to remember - it will sort of be just
> like non-english speaking people trying to remember current english domain
> names! But the point is that you can still type them in with a regular
> keyboard.)
>
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> > Won't using non-ASCII characters in domain names destroy the globality of
> > the Internet?
> >
> > Lee Hodgson
> > http://DomainGuideBook.com
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