Re: Thread 5: Defining the namespace (was Re: Thread 1:

[Kevin Brown <kevinbr@netcomm.ie>]

Kent ,

For some reason a lot of the UAE web activity takes place from Canada,
where a lot of Indians live, who see the potential of the market here, in
Dubai. They all seem to have cousins here.

eg Who has Dubai.Com?

A single registrar can still hire someone who speaks the local language.
Want to hire some Urdu or Mallalam speakers?

By the way, Accent, an Israli company, produce a Multi-Lingual Browser.
Bring on Unicode as a standard! Ever try getting an Arabic Newspaper on the
Web so that everyone  (Mac PC) can read text, not GIFS?

Kevin
no I do not speak urdu or any of the 200+ SubContinet Languages. At one
stage I produced the European Journal of Lesser Know Languages, when I was
in the Design Business

At 11:25 +0300 31/12/96, Kent Crispin wrote:
>Kevin Brown allegedly said:
>>
>> Kent
>>
>> "single registrar is going to find it hard to have a meaningful
>> >international presence..."
>>
>> Huh?
>>
>> The Internet means that a one man shop in the High Hill of Arkansas can
>> compete globally with the might of IBM. We don't need offices with the
>> Internet.
>
>A common misconception.  You don't need offices, but you need to
>speak and write the language, know the local business practices, and
>so on.  A registrar physically located in Pakistan is going to be a
>lot more successful selling to Pakistanis than you are.
>
>> Are you implying that registries need an office in each country that they
>> accept registrations from?
>
>Not at all.  You can accept registrations from whoever will send them
>to you.  But when the net really becomes universal you simply aren't
>going to be able to reach a substantial portion of the human race
>because of linguistic and cultural barriers.  So you can accept
>registrations, sure, but no one will send them to you because they
>don't know English and don't read your web page.
>
>Shared registries deal very handily with this issue.  The person
>running a registrar in Pakistan probably needs to speak english to
>deal with his cohort registrars, but he won't need to speak english
>to his customers.  So he can register them in .com or whatever.
>
>> Look at NSI. One web page, and all that .com cash. Single Registrar ( NSI)
>> and they do have a MEANINGFUL International presence.
>
>You've noticed NSI's German, French, Chinese, Japanese, etc web
>pages?  Yes they are making a bundle, but at some point they would
>have to deal with the fact that the majority of people on earth don't
>speak english.  The net as a whole has to deal with that fact.
>
>--
>Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
>kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
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