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For a Canadian study, I checked the Canadian Toyota site. Strange concept! http://www.toyota.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WWW.woa/37/wo/Home.Vehicles.Go.Matrix-sODsOsTPA7xfRCJfQKuSb0/8.7?v108060e.html

>Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page.

But why is that? Shouldn't toyota.com get you to their corporate international page, and toyota.us to the US page?

I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page

I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page. Surely ca.toyota.com would be better? I mean it's commercial, it's Toyota's and it's their Canada site, it's also cheaper. Domain names are open to allot of interpretation...

Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page. Using country-level TLDs for this purpose is correct and should be encouraged - it is a lot better than the alternatives like having a stupid URL like http://www.hyundaicanada.com/, or forcefully re-directing people based on their geographic location (what if I am using a proxy? Or what if I want information on the American prices for comparison?).

Lots of companies redirect country TLDs to one website, such as www.example.co.uk -> www.example.com/uk/. It's just as convenient a standard and I don't see what advantage a TLD gets you.

But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?

There's no obvious solution. You could do it by lottery between the holders of the current .org/.com/.net domain, or start a new registry as a free-for-all or one of several other ways.

I think it would be worth it, but it's never going to happen.

Country-level TLDs are significant. For example, I KNOW that http://www.toyota.ca/ takes me to Toyota Canada's page, while http://www.toyota.com/ takes me to the US page. Using country-level TLDs for this purpose is correct and should be encouraged - it is a lot better than the alternatives like having a stupid URL like http://www.hyundaicanada.com/, or forcefully re-directing people based on their geographic location (what if I am using a proxy? Or what if I want information on the American prices for comparison?).

The "generic" top level TLDs however (.com, .net, and .org), are indeed irrelevant.

Personally, I think the answer is not to *abolish* TLDs, but to make them *optional*, and abolish only .com / .net / .org. Then a company doesn't have to register 3 domains, and they only have to register country-level domains in contries where they actually have a presence.

But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?

Got my Creative MP3 player plugged in the "Audio Auxiliary Input Jack" of my 2007 Camry already.
http://www.toyota.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WWW.woa/7/ wo/Home.Vehicles.Camry-jo7y77vgUV7jGr6WkQdxCw/8.15 ?v103035e.html

Here's a link to the Canadian brochure-ordering page, but there's no indication that you'll get the disc with it. I signed up though, just in case they do have some.

https://www.toyota.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WWW.woa/8 /wo/Home.ContactUs.BrochureOrder-4cYgzZxPZUjrkmUhb HryYM/7.5?f120000e%2ehtml

Canadians often pay more than Americans for quite a number of things.

Like what? Cars? Food? When I'm in the states, everything seems more expensive in real terms, at least to me (i.e. I can buy the same stuff in Canada for less).

When I purchased a new car last year, I had to sign a form saying I would not sell it in the US for at least 2 years. This is because Americans who come up here to buy a car undermine the US market. This is a growing problem for US dealers near the border. For example:

C$24,640 Toyota Matrix (2003) in Canada (ON)
US$19,235 Toyota Matrix (2003) in the US (NY)

The canadian dollar was $0.67 at the time, therefore the car purchased in Canada was US$16,508. A good deal for Americans.


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I agree with you on the javascript part, but... excluded from pages?

Could you give an example please?

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Try visiting Toyota Canada without having Opera lie about its identity and you're immediately treated like trash. Have Opera lie about its identity and everything works fine.

I've encountered a number of sites that do this. These just happened to be two convenient examples.

Check out Toyota Canada with mozilla + javascript.

No go.

I wrote them an email to remind them that as a commercial site it is in their best interest to be accessible to anyone. They responded that they were thinking about it.

That was a month ago. I just hope they don't build cars like they think...