Global by Design

France became a member of the million domain club with its one-millionth .fr registration on January 11th.
Here are the top six country codes based on registrations:

Germany: 11,120,000
China: 6,035,000
United Kingdom: 6,010,000
Netherlands: 2,545,000
Italy: 1,426,000
United States: 1,300,000

According to my calculations, France would be ranked either 10th or 11th overall, depending on where Switzerland and Australia stand currently. These [...]

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I recently finished reading Redefining Global Strategies: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter by Pankaj Ghemawat.

This book provides a strong counterpoint to Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat.
While The World is Flat may leave an executive thinking We have to be in Brazil and Russia and China and India yesterday! Pankaj emphasizes [...]

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Earlier this year I developed the Map of the World Wide Web, shown here:

This map was designed to fit on a cubicle wall and include the major country code top level domains (ccTLDs) that a global Webmaster may encounter.
And although the map includes a whopping 180 ccTLDs, that is not all of them. To include [...]

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When you work in this industry for awhile, you get pretty familiar with country codes such as .de for Germany or .cn for China. But there are simply too many country codes to memorize them all.
Which is what drove me to develop the Map of the World Wide Web.
This map aligns country codes over their [...]

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A few weeks ago I wrote about AOL’s new portal for India. According to Reuters, or, Thomson, AOL is only just getting started.

AOL plans to expand into 14 markets over the next two years. And this is in addition to the portals it recently launched for India, Netherlands, and Austria.
AOL is also opening an office [...]

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AOL has just gone live with its India Web portal as the company seeks to grab a growing slice of this rapidly growing market.
Says Ron Grant, AOL president and COO, “This is a very important — I would say critical — market for us. India has the highest priority in our international business.”
AOL already [...]

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