Terry Carmen wrote:
James Butler wrote:
We've fielded many, many inquiries about the availability of Arabic
domain names over the past several years. Don't underestimate the
backlash against everything being in English for so long ... there are
hordes (sorry) of folks who want to be able to use their native
charactersets.
While the new character-sets are great for business within a country,
they're not great for anybody planning on doing business in foreign
(to them) locations.
"The Excellent Rice Company" can pick any Chinese characters they
want, but if they want business from outside the country, un-typable
un-recognizable characters won't help.
That's just your Latin centric point of view.
They have more people than we have.
Anyway, with Apache name virtual hosting, and similar methods, you can
have your cake and eat it too. Grab both sets of names and serve them
up. Have the pages you serve depend on how the customer addressed your
server. Then you gain a huge new customer base that was unable to
communicate with you before.
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