.com vs. .com

[DomainDialect]

I may have missed this in the other threads but I'll bring it up here. If someone has an IDN.com domain and automatically has the reg rights to an IDN.IDN (.com in that language) domain I assume there will be no action to take if .com remains .com for that language. Am I correct? Won't some countries (languages) still retain the .com extension even after translation? (Or any other extension for that matter). Looking for comments...

[squirrel]

you are right,

French, Spanish and others are already fully internationalized, in the sense that .com makes sense in these languages and will not have to be translated.

Same for .net, same for .org

[555]

Won't some countries (languages) still retain the .com extension even after translation? (Or any other extension for that matter). Looking for comments...
Yes, All languages will retain the ASCII .com extension even after translation, some just won't have a translation and will only retain ASCII .com like the samples you used above.

[Drewbert]

you are right,

French, Spanish and others are already fully internationalized, in the sense that .com makes sense in these languages and will not have to be translated.

Same for .net, same for .org

Well, we could probably come up with better abbreviations than "com" for Spanish and French.

.biz would be better served in (Mexican) Spanish as .neg - short for negocio

plus I've heard people use the plural abbreviation "infos" more than "info" for informacion.

[blastfromthepast]

We are waiting for ".kom" latin script languages which do not use "c" in the word commercial.

[bumblebee man]

Well, we could probably come up with better abbreviations than "com" for Spanish and French.


Well, in French and Spanish it does make sense at least: commerce and comercio. Don't know how popular these expression are though.

We are waiting for ".kom" latin script languages which do not use "c" in the word commercial.

Which language would that be? In German there is "Kommerz" but it's actually quite unpopular.

I don't really think a translation of .com is needed for Latin scripts.

[Drewbert]

From the Goog...

Croatian, Slovenian - trgovina
Czech, Slovak - obchod
Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish - handel
Estonian - kaubandus
Filipino - komersyo
Finnish - kaupankäynti
Hungarian - kereskedelem
Icelandic - verslun
Indonesian - perdagangan
Irish - thráchtáil
Latvian - tirdzniecība
Lithuanian - prekyba
Malay - perdagangan
Maltese - kummerċ
Turkish - ticaret
Welsh - fasnach

[blastfromthepast]

For example, in Polish, "c" sounds like "ts", and not "k". So, if you were to transliterate .com, it would be .kom.

[DomainDialect]

Thanks for the input. :)

[bumblebee man]

For example, in Polish, "c" sounds like "ts", and not "k". So, if you were to transliterate .com, it would be .kom.

All right. That makes sense. For German I can't think of any good alternative for .com - even though .com doesn't really mean anything in German.

Anyway, even in America many people don't know what it means.

[squirrel]

I thought com stood for communist

[Rubber Duck]

For example, in Polish, "c" sounds like "ts", and not "k". So, if you were to transliterate .com, it would be .kom.

Hence the alternative spellings for Tsar/Csar.

Dot Com, however, is a Brand not a Generic.

[Rubber Duck]

Sorry, I am reduced to tweeting but Windows bloody 7 jumps is I do more than a sentence.

[Rubber Duck]

If America thinks her advanced technology rather than sound finance and hard work are going to save her skin then she has miscalculated.

[bumblebee man]

Dot Com, however, is a Brand not a Generic.

Exactly. Everyone knows and likes it, no matter what it means. That's why I wouldn't want to swap it for any translation in Latin script.

With extensions it's all about trust and recognition and not (so much) about their meanings. That's why stocks.org is better than stocks.biz imo.

[DktoInc]

what about the aging of the domain?? Once it becomes Idn,KOM will it be a brand new ball game for everyone or will the domain aging of the .com transfer once .KOM is activated?

[DomainDialect]

Do you mean if the .com was registered in 2006 will the .kom retain that same date? I would guess no.