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Re: New TLDs and Registry charters
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:40:42 -0500
- From: Vince Wolodkin <wolodkin@digitalink.com>
- Subject: Re: New TLDs and Registry charters
This being said, wouldn't numbers then, be more appropriate?
Vince
David Collier-Brown wrote:
>
> Daniel Kaplan wrote:
> > Simon, what you forget is that those 42 categories have as many names as
> > there are languages. You can't just assume that creating 42 iTLDs based on
> > the English-language abreviation of those trademark categories solves the
> > problem.
>
> Quite correct, but deferrable. So long as the categories
> exist in one language, it is trivial for a user interface
> to substitute their equivalents in a selected language.
> I would strongly urge the developers of such interfaces
> to find the exact equivalents by looking up their language's
> official term or terms for each of the international
> cetegories.
>
> --dave
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