Posts Tagged ‘web’
|International Domain Names: Internet Set To Add Non-English Web Addresses
Monday, October 26th, 2009
This is an incredible news to revive a saturating industry. ICANN has decided -after 40 years- to open domain names to non-English web addresses. Briefly, it means you will soon be able to register www.été.com or www.שלום.com. Registrars around the planet must be ecstatic about the news. Same for hosting companies. Brands, individuals are obviously less happy to have to spend few more dollars to increase domain name protection. Not sure how search engines will react but it sure adds a lot of work for them. Indexing, ranking international non english domain names is looking like a real challenge.
“We’re confident that it works because we’ve been testing it now for a couple of years,” he said. “And so we’re really ready to start rolling it out.”
Of the 1.6 billion Internet users worldwide, Beckstrom – a former chief of U.S. cybersecurity – said that more than half use languages that have scripts based on alphabets other than Latin.
“So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world’s Internet users today, but more than half of probably the future users as the use of the Internet continues to spread,” he said.
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Tags: domain names, ICANN, internet, non english, web, www
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Facebook will be #1 this year before Google
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Imagine a community website taking leadership of the WWW – yet this is happening as you read those lines.
Facebook is growing fast +220% this year reaching 122M uniques in July. Google leads with 147M uniques BUT it is absolutely inevitable Facebook will win this battle.
Google is facing serious attacks from Microsoft with Bing.com. Yahoo! has remained solid behind Google despite the Ballmer/Chen fiasco. Google’s numbers are stable but no real sign of growth despite a rise in search queries.
Facebook has doubled its uniques from 66M in January 09 to 122M in July 09 and I see a peak of uniques starting right after summer holidays. Millions of pictures are going to be posted to Facebook. There is one ironical fact: 1st source of incoming traffic on Facebook is….Google. Maybe Google will react to that and start pushing Facebook results a bit further down.
FaceBook will be #1 site in the world by December 09. INCREDIBLE.
Tags: #1site, facebook, google, growth, web, yahoo!
Posted in Social Media, Technology | 5 Comments »
