Global by Design

McAfee has released a report that rates the world’s top level domains in terms of overall risk to the Web user — from browser exploits, phishing Web sites, excessive pop-ups, and other nasty things.
The report finds that “19.2% of all Web sites ending in the .hk domain pose a security threat to Web users.” Last [...]

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Poland (.pl) announced last week that it joined the million domain club by registering its one-millionth ccTLD.
The reason for the sudden surge in registrations is Poland’s easing of the registration process by adding partner registries. There are now 95 registries for .pl including 37 of these based outside of Poland.
Here’s a chart of all countries [...]

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My second Lionbridge Webinar is scheduled for June 3rd at 1 pm EST and you can register for it here.
The topic is global navigation — why it’s so important and how to improve upon it. I wrote an ebook about this topic two years ago. Since then, geolocation and language negotiation have become more commonly [...]

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The Lionbridge webinar yesterday has been archived for those of you who couldn’t make it. You can register to listen to the call at the Lionbridge site.
And mark your calendars for June 3rd, when I will host a second webinar, also sponsored by Lionbridge, to discuss the many aspects of global navigation — from splash [...]

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I took a moment to visit the Vatican recently at www.vatican.va.
And here is what I saw — a splash global gateway:

The splash gateway offers six languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French.
And I enjoy the fact that the Vatican City has its own country code top-level domain: .va. In case you’re wondering, our Country [...]

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This comes via my brother via Blogoscoped — Google has made interesting use of the Iceland country code to create a URL that packs a narrative:

Check out out here: www.google.is/microsoft.

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