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Very inspiring, this is her website: http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp Also previous discussion and video: https://news.ycombinat

Very inspiring, this is her website: http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp http://marchan.travel.coocan.jp Also previous discussion and video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14995333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14995333

Something1234 8y ago
Kind of off topic, but I've always found Japanese domain names to weird. They always seem to be subdomains of someone else's site. Why is this?
- oceanman888 8y ago
  She is probably using some hosting service provided by Japaneses company. edit: the company hp is cocan.jp a lot of personal home page are host by them. since normal Japanese don't exactly know how to use heroku and AWS.
  - pimlottc 8y ago
    In case you're not aware, you're being downvoted for "Jap". Perhaps you were just abbreviating "Japanese", but it's considered offensive.
    - oceanman888 8y ago
      That is good to know, I am not from the states. I thought Jap was abbreviate for Japanese what have the internet done to me lol.
      - astura 8y ago
        "Jap" only became an ethnic slur in American English during/due to World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
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      - gaius 8y ago
        The rules are complicated, as a non-native English speaker it would be very easy to get caught out. Brit and Aussie are fine, Jap and Paki are pejorative. Best to use the full term if in any doubt.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Reminds me of my early days in the web (early to mid 2000's) when people had GeoCities websites, Angelfire, etc... For the record GeoCities never closed for Japan probably due to this phenomena you mention where they just host somewhere instead of buying a domain. I wonder how many pay for hosting despite only having a subdomain.
  - wodenokoto 8y ago
    Even more crazy, the Japanese Geocities is part of the Japanese Yahoo. Sometimes it really feels like they have a parallel web going on over there! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Jap...
myaccountforhn 8y ago
Although I can't read Japanese I love how simple her layout and fast to load her website is.

Something1234 8y ago

Kind of off topic, but I've always found Japanese domain names to weird. They always seem to be subdomains of someone else's site. Why is this?

oceanman888 8y ago
She is probably using some hosting service provided by Japaneses company. edit: the company hp is cocan.jp a lot of personal home page are host by them. since normal Japanese don't exactly know how to use heroku and AWS.
- pimlottc 8y ago
  In case you're not aware, you're being downvoted for "Jap". Perhaps you were just abbreviating "Japanese", but it's considered offensive.
  - oceanman888 8y ago
    That is good to know, I am not from the states. I thought Jap was abbreviate for Japanese what have the internet done to me lol.
    - astura 8y ago
      "Jap" only became an ethnic slur in American English during/due to World War II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap
      - deleted 8y ago
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    - gaius 8y ago
      The rules are complicated, as a non-native English speaker it would be very easy to get caught out. Brit and Aussie are fine, Jap and Paki are pejorative. Best to use the full term if in any doubt.
giancarlostoro 8y ago
Reminds me of my early days in the web (early to mid 2000's) when people had GeoCities websites, Angelfire, etc... For the record GeoCities never closed for Japan probably due to this phenomena you mention where they just host somewhere instead of buying a domain. I wonder how many pay for hosting despite only having a subdomain.
- wodenokoto 8y ago
  Even more crazy, the Japanese Geocities is part of the Japanese Yahoo. Sometimes it really feels like they have a parallel web going on over there! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities#GeoCities_Jap...

myaccountforhn 8y ago

Although I can't read Japanese I love how simple her layout and fast to load her website is.