Signing the New Domain Language Trend?
April 25, 2010 by domainqueen
Filed under Domain News, General
The education of sign language interpreters has boomed due to the proliferation of careers and degrees, as well as the online education possibilities of physically handicapped people using sign language as their primary language for learning and reading. Could .-sign be the new portal tld for sign language enabled content and websites?
The age of the Internet and its real estate land grab for geographic and primary purpose business and concept TLDs has come and is still evolving. It stands to reason that with language development happening in online hegemony areas like Asia and Russia, other alphabets and keyboards to assist might not be far behind. Videos and short translated abstracts of text and web content might be a valuable niche for domainers to invest in.
With video, audio, and text content sites streaming content of every kind in every format all over the web, how long until a massive movement to the online delivery of sign language translations and translated sign language content is here? Physically challenged users the world over using sign language speak one universal language. That’s a demographic no domainer can ignore.
Likely codes and letter series for signing and sign language sites are the American Sign Language (ASL), Pidgin Sign Language (PSE), and Sign Exact English (SEE) terms. Translated materials, services, and websites could prove intriguing and sticky to many global SEO enabled data researchers. For web entrepreneurs, selling directories of sign language enabled sites, as well as directories for products and materials to utilize signing could pay off downstream.



