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

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is anyone surprised?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Brewer" <sbrewer@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <freedns@xxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [FreeDNS] fw: Govt, Namespace find compromise on .za


> 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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