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Calling all Indians . . .

Wes Boudville
5 min readApr 12, 2021

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You from India? Would you like to peacefully promote Indian languages and culture internationally? My firm (Linket.info) makes linkets, which are brands like domain names. Linkets look like [Cars], [Dresses], [Running], [Movies], [Hot Dog]. These are in English. However linkets can be in any language. Linkets fulfill a promise made by domains, to be global. But domains are in the Roman alphabet. You likely have never seen a domain in Hindi, Tamil, Gujurati, Urdu, Kannada, Bangla, etc. There is a way to do this, but it is so awkward that it rarely is done.

We have a much easier way. (See below.) You get linkets in Hindi (etc) from us, and use them as multichannel marketing. Linkets are your brands, written in Indian languages, instead of domains written in English. These brands are more understandable to vast audiences in India, that are not being well served with domains.

Figure 1 shows 270 linkets we sold, at prices from $3 to $15 each. Most in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, with a few others in Malay, Urdu, Italian. The English linkets include [Halloween], [Easter], [Voice]. These are analogous to the domains halloween.com, easter.com, voice.com. Just as the domains have obvious commercial value, so do the English linkets.

Figure 1

What you see in Figure 1 is that there is not a single domain in an Indian language. (Ok, there is 1 domain in…

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Wes Boudville
Wes Boudville

Written by Wes Boudville

Inventor. 23 granted US patents on AR/VR/Metaverse . Founded linket.info for mobile brands for users. Linket competes against Twitch and YouTube. PhD physics.

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