Make money with a domain in your language

Do you want to sell something in a country whose langage is not English? You might get a domain name for it, to use as a Web brand. But there is a problem. A domain is restricted to the Roman alphabet with no accent signs. Aside from English, every Western European language has accents. Think of the French circumflex. Or the Spanish tilde. Or the German umlaut. These are the easy cases.

Eastern Europe has languages using Cyrillic and Greek.

Leaving Europe, there is Arabic, 25+ Indian languages. And Chinese and Japanese, which don’t use alphabets.

Plus, domains cannot have whitespace. So we have to write fatboy.com.

We (Linket.info) make linkets. Unicode strings enclosed in square brackets, like [cricket] or [ ਕਾਰਟੂਨ ]. You can point these at an URL of a website. Your website might have a domain that cannot be written in your language. So you don’t want to use the domain as your brand. Instead, by getting a linket and pointing it at the website, you use the linket as the brand. It is meaningful to people who know your language.

Figure 1 shows European linkets, in French, German, Spanish, English, Italian. If you squint, you might recognise some of the words in the linkets, like [Happy New Year] or [Eiweiß] (egg white) or [La crêpe] (French restaurant). See how the linket can have white space between words. Notice the Beta in the German linket and the circumflex in the French linket.