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  • Domain name stats and speculation of introduction to IDN

    At the end of 2008, there were 177 million registered TLD domain names. Of the 240 cc TLDs there were 71.1 million registrations with 65% of them from only 10 ccTLDs according to Verisign. Of the top ten ccTLDs .cn, .de, .uk, .nl, .eu, .ar, .it, .ar, .br, .us and .au only 3 of the…

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  • The power of passive online activism.

    After wide spread protest over FaceBook’s new Terms of Use claiming perpetual ownership of all information you place on FaceBook.com, they have reverted their Terms of use as can be seen in their latest updated below. In a recent Mashable poll  56% of users were unhappy with the new Terms of Use. Now if our politicians…

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  • Singapore uses play on Māori word kia ora

    Singapore telecommunications company name their peer to peer mobile service kiora – a play on the Māori word – Kia ora. Initially I read about this at http://www.brownpages.co.nz (which is a great new blog I just came across on Twitter) which made me think about the issue of international companies using Māori culture and words.…

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  • Māori language and Web 2.0

    Although I am no longer involved with promotion of the Māori language via technology it is one of those things where the brain still has new ideas. One of them was to use Māori language in all social media for a day. Today in Twitter from @keoladonaghy  I received this link http://bit.ly/2kFGO for the Hawaiian language.…

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  • Japan alternative method to domain names

    Another example of why i am not certain the domain names will be in such heavy demand in the future. According to this article, in Japan advertisers do not advertise thier domain name just the words to search the Internet for. It certainly contradicts the online marketing and branding strategies that we use in the…

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