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Website Domain Names
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I’ve said it before, and I will say it again. First of all it’s not professional to use something.freeblogplatform.com; it is more difficult to remember; you are promoting someone else by mentioning their free service every single time you tell someone about your blog, and you are telling others that you’re using a free blog platform which tells me you are not as serious about your blog; and most importantly — you’re stuck using that platform.
That’s right. If you ever decide to switch to a different service, you’re stuck using that free service because it’s not your domain name and you can’t take it with you should you ever decide to move your blog somewhere else. If the free service you are using decides to close its doors — say Bye to your blog. I can go on and on why it’s one of the biggest mistakes people make.
The solution is simple, cheap, and 100% effective — invest $10 and buy your own domain name! Then map your domain name to your blog and start promoting your name instead of me.someone.com. Now you are fully independent from your free blog provider. You can use any service you wish; you can grow you blog without worrying about the stability of the free service you’re on; you can just pickup and go wherever your heart desires; it makes you look professional, and easy for others to remember the address of your blog.
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Domain Names
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Big changes are afoot in the world of domain names. By the middle of 2010, the first domains in non-Latin scripts should be up and running.
This will make domain names written in Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabic a reality – up till now, domains have only been able to contain Latin characters.
This means we’ll start to see domain names containing all sorts of unfamiliar characters – well, unfamiliar to those of us who don’t understand those languages, at least.
What’s the point?
Billions of people across the world never use the Latin alphabet in their lives. This is a key step in making the internet more accessible and understandable to those people. That’s what makes it important.
The whole point of the changes is to create a universal address system that will work anywhere and everywhere – so every computer in the world can connect with every other.
But first things first: to begin with, the change will only apply to country code top level domains (like .uk) which are controlled by national governments.
In time, we should see the new scripts rolled out across the board. However, as they represent significant technical changes to the system that underpins the way domain names work, it’s one step at a time.
What does it mean?
We’re still getting to grips with what these changes might mean for the internet. They’re being introduced gradually, so don’t expect to see a revolution overnight. However, here are some of the things that might happen:
* The internet should become more accessible to people all around the world. So we’d expect to see lots more websites in languages that don’t use the Latin alphabet – like Russian, Chinese, Arabic and Korean.
* Other domain extensions might become less valuable. For instance, once there’s an extension for China in Chinese, the .cn extension might become less-relevant. That could affect demand for them – and their value.
* But don’t feel too sorry for domainers. On the flipside, all these new alphabets should expand the number of possible domain names too. So there might be whole new markets for them to exploit.
* We might see more security issues. Some experts have expressed concerns that all the changes will increase security problems – making it easier for fraudsters to set up phishing websites and the like.
There are a couple of downsides here – and the question mark over security is the biggest. However, these issues can be solved, so despite them, we can’t help but think moving towards having domain names in every language is a good thing. After all, it’s the only way to create a truly global internet that anyone can access.