Can you name the top* 10 most commonly used languages without looking below? Here they are: 1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion) 2. English (480 million) 3. Spanish (320 million) 4. Russian (285 million) 5. French (265 million) 6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million) 7. Arabic (221 million) 8. Portuguese (188 million) 9. Bengali (185 million) 10. Japanese [...]
Tria Beauty was described as one of the hottest brands of the year by the publication, Advertising Age. Tria has marketed itself exceptionally well, having been featured in top magazines including Elle, O, InStyle, People, Good Housekeeping, Allure, Maire Claire and WWD. Why is Tria Beauty such a marketing star? Because it thinks outside the [...]
You missed your opportunity. That is the vibe most readers were getting if they didn’t snag a premium .CO yet. The message was — ok, it might be excusable if you weren’t exposed to domaining in the 1990s and so missing the .COM landgrab wasn’t your fault. But if .CO becomes the next big thing [...]
I knew that general availability for .CO was beginning yesterday at 2 p.m., and at 1:58 p.m. I finally decided to register some. First, I typed in city names, top generic product names, even top adjectives. All gone. Then, I looked at directory categories, starting with doctors.co and dentists.co and moving down the ranks. I [...]
Recently, Chuck Gomes of VeriSign was quoted as stating, “VeriSign will be submitting proposals for multiple IDN versions of .COM and .NET . . .” For the IDN investor who has bought IDN.com, this means that the value of your domains has just gone up significantly given that you will likely have an opportunity to [...]
The biggest domaining news in the last year broke today. The Generic Names Supporting Organization Council (GNSO), which deals with policy making on generic top-level domains (gTLDs) passed a motion to send the below letter to ICANN. Moreover, VeriSign stated in connection with the letter, “VeriSign will be submitting proposals for multiple IDN versions of [...]
Glenn Cowan discovered Ping Pong when his father brought home a table as a present. Soon thereafter, Glenn was racking up victories in national tournaments and kept his home full of trophies. Cowan’s defining moment came in 1971 during the 31st World Table Tennis Championships when he represented the United States. Cowan happened to miss [...]
When the story broke that the new Chinese ccTLDs .中国 and .中國 (each meaning .China) — were approved by ICANN and were managed by the Chinese registry CNNIC, the first question that came to mind was how are these new ccTLDs going to be used? The smart money was betting that .cn would be aliased [...]
Craig Nine is known by his handle, Olney. He founded IDNForums, is a Senior Search Specialist in paid search advertising, and has one of the strongest Japanese IDN portfolios. Q: When did you buy your first IDN? Do you remember what it was? A: I bought my first IDN Domain in August 2005. I believe [...]
This IDNBlog exclusive interview is with Hiro Hotta, who will be speaking on behalf of JPRS, which is the registry governing .jp domain names. He also provides a significant timeline on the status of IDN.jp aliasing to IDN.日本. Q: What is your position and role within JPRS? A: Director of Corporate Planning. Q: If I [...]
