interview

“TLDs in other scripts than ASCII could gain additional benefit”, said Mr Kuechenthal

This week we will present you the newest member of CORE’s Executive Committee. He is ambitious, passionate, reliable, friendly, likes football, from Germany, a father , CEO of LEMARIT and what else see in the following interview:

.САЙТ and .ОНЛАЙН domains: Hi Martin, you have an interesting family name? Does it have a translation in English? From where is it origin?

Martin Kuechenthal: Hi, thanks for inviting me for this interview.
And thank you for finding my family name interesting, most people just find it complicated especially outside of Germany.
Actually the name “K?chenthal” or in ASCII “Kuechenthal” is a quite old German family name and as far as I know all people with this name are part of the same family tree. Directly translated it means “kitchen valley”, which is funny but does not make so much sense. One serious explanation for the origin means “to look down to the valley“, but I am not 100% sure.

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On the biggest Russian Internet event last month one of our accredited registrars, Webnames.RU gave us an interview, speaking about our new Cyrillic domain names. See what are their advantages and disadvantages in the opinion of the long experienced Russian Marketing expert Mr Smirnov.

.САЙТ and .ОНЛАЙН: Webnames.ru is one of our accredited registrars. Thank you very much for taking part in our interview. First, please, introduce yourself and tell us more about your company.

Fedor Smirnov: Webnames.ru – is one of the biggest ICANN accredited Russian domain names registrars. We offer more than 200 TLDs and the total number of our customers registrations exceeds 500,000. At the same time, we are one of the first Russian registrars with working history of more then 13 years. (more…)