Re: [FreeDNS] fw: Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za

["Shane Brewer" <sbrewer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know how wrong I am in thinking this, me not being an internet guru,
but you can register any string of letters together to form an address, no
matter the language....so if a zulu person wanted to register a zulu name,
he could...like www.umzumvubo.co.za. Am I right in this ?

And due to the dynamics of the internet, there are ALOT of non-english
websites out there! So, once again, the SA government is screwing up.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Downs" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <freedns@xxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 2:24 PM
Subject: RE: [FreeDNS] fw: Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za


> Agreed. And many do. I've seen a few Afrikaans sites in my time. And in
the
> States, there are plenty of .com's in Spanish. I don't really understand
> what they mean. Are they truly proposing that we have .xh.za, .ns.za, etc,
> (Which seems pretty preposterous) or are they simply saying that they
intend
> to encourage people to run domains with content other than English (Which
I
> think is reasonable)?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freedns-admin@xxxxxx [mailto:freedns-admin@xxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Samuel Murray
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 June 2002 10:09
> To: 'freedns@xxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [FreeDNS] fw: Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za
>
>
> JeanJ:
> > Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za
> > BY PHILLIP DE WET, ITWEB NEWS EDITOR
> >
> > "How many languages do we have in this country? We need all those
> > languages
> > on the Internet," he says. All second-level domains (such as .co.za or
> > .gov.za) are based on English, he contends, and that must change. "We
have
> > to have second level domains in Afrikaans, in Zulu, in Sotho, in the
other
> > languages."
> >
> Samuel:
> Well let's roll on the .af.za, the .en.za, the .es.za, the .xh.za etc...
> for what purpose?  Nothing prevents a Xhosa or an Afrikaans person from
> publishing materials in his language in a .co.za site.
>
>
>
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