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There’s a bit of tension among Welsh internet activists, with some petitioning for a Welsh .cymru top-level domain, while others prefer the safer option of using .wales so it doesn’t confuse outsiders quite so much.
The Welsh government is apparently now favouring the .wales option at the moment, much to the annoyance of action group dotCYM, which would rather the nation adopted the .cmryu TLD so it can have “a domain for Wales in Welsh.”
According to dotCYM, Wales’ First Minister Carwyn Jones has himself just come out in favour of the less Welsh .wales option, leading campaigners to question his commitment to promoting the Welsh language.
If you have an opinion about the matter, there’s an online petition for a more Welsh internet here. [dotCYM via The Register]
Image credit: Visit Wales.
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Wales has the internet!!!!!!
I’m slightly confused, what exactly is a ‘Wales’?
Reminded me of (Inbetweeners, Neil) “I don’t get it. What is Swindon? Is it an animal?”
Funny, I thought they were still using carrier pigeons and was trying to figure out what purpose a TLD would serve
Yes, I and my fellow Welsh heathen brethren have the internet. Oh, we were also one of the first to have the digital switch-over whereas a lot of the superior complex English are still waiting.
Cymru am byth!!
I’M SORRY I CAN’T UNDERSTAND YOU.
DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
Not that I’m trying to break up the funny
but surely they should put it to a vote? Democracy in action! If most of Wales is perfectly happy to have “.wales” then it wouldn’t be fair for a small section of Angliphobes to force their viewpoint… or vice versa.
I’ve got lots of Welsh friends, but have to say that whenever I’ve visited, the general population was very unfriendly whenever I revealed my englishness; deliberate mis-directions, cold stares and stink-eye etc. So it doesn’t surprise me that some people are kicking off about having their country’s domain name in *spits on floor* English!
Yeah, that’s just the stupid xenophobic nationalists.
I grew up in Wales (I’m “English” though I consider myself “British”), and most people, I think, couldn’t care less. There’s simply a vocal few who are just plain xenophobes, but because of them, everything has to be in Welsh first, English second (even though many more people speak and read English), etc. etc.
It pisses me off.
If they have any sense they will use .wales, because .cymru will be difficult for anyone outside of Wales.
Do they really need a whole suffix? If anything, they should be hiding the fact that they’re in Wales. I kid I kid!
Why don’t they just stick with .uk as they are part of the united kingdom. I mean it’s not like england are considering a .england or .eng tld.
Nationalism, I suppose some businesses might prefer to have something relevant. In which case it’d make as much sense as having .england
Eeeh. I didn’t know we’re now using native language domain names. China needs to change .cn to .zh, Japan has .jp instead of .ni, etc…
They need to go for .cymru as .wales sounds too Welsh, it would be bad for business.
Bagsy http://www.jimmy.wales
.cymru would work better, more people would recognise the word and know that it is Wales in Welsh.
Personally I think .baa would be better.
Sounds all a bit silly, being Welsh (and proud) I think .co.uk is just fine, at a push I’d go for .wales but thats about it…
Just to confirm, we also have;
hot and cold running water
buses
those small widget things that go in cans of beer
Catherine Jenkins
How about
.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch ?
can’t they just have both and and have one redirect to the ‘official’ one.
personally, I would have thought .cymru would be the ‘official’ way to go as it’s truer to their roots.
Surely just .ll would cover it.
.wales being the safer, more understandable option does make sense (or at worst, .cym). It has absolutely nothing to do with preservation of the Welsh language in the end, the content of the websites does!