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 [...]

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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! [...]

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The fine folks at Multlingual Search have published a report on the state of the search engine markets in more than a dozen countries. This report is a quick read and, best of all, it’s free. You can download it here. The most interesting takeaway is something I’ve been writing about on this blog — [...]

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Although the country code .SU (Soviet Union) refuses to die, .YU (Yugoslavia) is now history. As the ICANN blog notes: With the transition of Serbia and Montenegro to using .RS and .ME comes the task of migrating users from the .YU domain. As we have talked about before, ICANN uses an international standard for determining [...]

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The .su country code domain stands for Soviet Union. It was established in 1990, just before the Soviet Union ceased to exist. And although the Soviet Union is but a memory, .su is alive and well, despite the best efforts of ICANN. According to this Reuters article, roughly 10,000 .su domains have been registered, including [...]

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