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Oh. no - not language specific TLDs! They wanted to introduce them like 7 years ago, and a lot of people agreed that it would just be a detriment to the Interne

by jotm 13y ago

Oh. no - not language specific TLDs! They wanted to introduce them like 7 years ago, and a lot of people agreed that it would just be a detriment to the Internet as we know it (freely accessible and global).

tcdent 13y ago
How does recognizing global languages as "first class citizens" make the internet less global?
- jotm 13y ago
  Can you type in these? شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – Arabic for "web/network" онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Cyrillic for "online" сайт (xn--80aswg) – Cyrillic for "site" 游戏(xn--unup4y) – Chinese for "game(s)" Can you eve view them? Yeah, Google will help, but if the trend continues, the Internet will become less global. One language is better in this case. Imagine if programming languages were in different languages with their respective characters - everything would be harder and everyone would have a whole lot to lose.
  - tcdent 13y ago
    Are you advocating that the entire world should speak one language - English? How is typing an Arabic or Cyrillic domain disadvantageous to those that read and write Arabic or Cyrillic? Especially when the resulting site is very likely to contain content in that same language. Your argument seems very self-centered, and quite exaggeratedly so: you'd prefer disadvantaging non-English speakers when accessing content you wouldn't ever consume, simply because you are more comfortable with Latin characters yourself.
    - jotm 13y ago
      Oh, not this again. I am not against other languages, people, races, or whatever. It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online. It's not the offline world, it's been created from scratch, and English is already used in most (all?) programming languages, as well as most of the websites people actually use (although they do use region/country level translation). Why screw that up? It's a bit like if the US let Texas and California use Spanish as the official language, and the other states used English.
      - DanBC 13y ago
        > It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online I don't think you'd be saying that if the one goddamn language was something you didn't speak.
        jotm 13y ago
        I don't want to seem condescending or sound like a jerk, but actually, yes I would. That's because up until 10 years ago, I didn't speak English and it severely limited what I could do, both online and offline.
perlgeek 13y ago
Don't you think that .com and .info and .biz etc. already are language specific? They are just specific to the/a language you happen to speak.
- amerika_blog 13y ago
  Not anymore than any other abbreviation. .com = commerce .gov = gov't .net = network .org = organization These are simple terms associated with the language of those who invented the net, so it's no more specific than asking us to call "feta" cheese by its real name, even though it's not in our language.
- asdfaoeu 13y ago
  There's no reason to have a separate namespace though. .com in other languages should just map to .com domains.

by jotm 13y ago

tcdent 13y ago

How does recognizing global languages as "first class citizens" make the internet less global?

jotm 13y ago
Can you type in these? شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) – Arabic for "web/network" онлайн (xn--80asehdb) – Cyrillic for "online" сайт (xn--80aswg) – Cyrillic for "site" 游戏(xn--unup4y) – Chinese for "game(s)" Can you eve view them? Yeah, Google will help, but if the trend continues, the Internet will become less global. One language is better in this case. Imagine if programming languages were in different languages with their respective characters - everything would be harder and everyone would have a whole lot to lose.
- tcdent 13y ago
  Are you advocating that the entire world should speak one language - English? How is typing an Arabic or Cyrillic domain disadvantageous to those that read and write Arabic or Cyrillic? Especially when the resulting site is very likely to contain content in that same language. Your argument seems very self-centered, and quite exaggeratedly so: you'd prefer disadvantaging non-English speakers when accessing content you wouldn't ever consume, simply because you are more comfortable with Latin characters yourself.
  - jotm 13y ago
    Oh, not this again. I am not against other languages, people, races, or whatever. It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online. It's not the offline world, it's been created from scratch, and English is already used in most (all?) programming languages, as well as most of the websites people actually use (although they do use region/country level translation). Why screw that up? It's a bit like if the US let Texas and California use Spanish as the official language, and the other states used English.
    - DanBC 13y ago
      > It just makes A LOT of logical sense to use one goddamn language online I don't think you'd be saying that if the one goddamn language was something you didn't speak.
      - jotm 13y ago
        I don't want to seem condescending or sound like a jerk, but actually, yes I would. That's because up until 10 years ago, I didn't speak English and it severely limited what I could do, both online and offline.

perlgeek 13y ago

Don't you think that .com and .info and .biz etc. already are language specific? They are just specific to the/a language you happen to speak.

amerika_blog 13y ago
Not anymore than any other abbreviation. .com = commerce .gov = gov't .net = network .org = organization These are simple terms associated with the language of those who invented the net, so it's no more specific than asking us to call "feta" cheese by its real name, even though it's not in our language.
asdfaoeu 13y ago
There's no reason to have a separate namespace though. .com in other languages should just map to .com domains.