Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web? (pcworld.com) |
Will New Internet Domain Names Change the Web? (pcworld.com) |
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 have their .rus and .chs but that's the whole point. The QWERTY keyboard is the standard worldwide.
Trying to bypass that, just reeks of opportunism
Also, the QWERTY keyboard is just not the standard worldwide...
That being said, I don't think people will start using japanese URLs much. The alphabet + .jp is already ingrained and more convenient. Also, most phones will refuse japanese characters in an email adress and perhaps in an URL, which is a game breaker here.
Japaneses tastes are quite different when it comes to design, anonymity, and personal privacy -- and the divergent social network doesn't help anything.
Try telling that to a frenchman.
> goole.com
> Alt-Shift-Win (to switch)
> говедо.ком
> Alt-Shift-Win (switch back)
Bah ... bulshit.Every other part of the URL including the rest of the domain name can already be Unicode encoded. This is how spoofing attacks are formed by using non-Latin characters in domain names that look like the Latin characters they replace.
This latest ICANN decision doesn't seem to make anything less convenient for the English speaking world than it already was.
Some clueless linux distros even install cyrillic layout as the only one; which is completely unusable of course.