Facebook Goes Regional
Oct 4th, 2007 | By Silent Observer | Category: Thoughts & Philosophy
We know that Facebook is gaining the fame day by day, few days back we heard about the deal with Microsoft. It’s still the hot topic among the users and IT professionals. So to remain stable at a high position like this, it is tough to maintain the facilities provided by Facebook will remain same then it will soon loose its effect and impact. Hence they have to keep changing the formats and keep innovating new ideas. We know its tough but they have to do that. For this Facebook is going to expand its empire globally.
So it is going to prepare sites in non-english languages. That they have to think which languages they have to start with. Facebook wants to go in the same way as the myspace did. To prove its influence and reign it has to start non-english sites.
Did Facebook think of registering its trademark outside the US? Ouriel Ohayon from TechCrunch FR pointsus to the Ning-driven social network currently on Facebook.fr. Although the website is in Dutch, the domain name was registered on the 29th of December 2006 by a man with a German address called Michel K., a domain name snatcher with a track record who goes by the nickname ‘Lucky Luke‘.
The excuse for a social network site he has running on the domain name is powered by PHPFoXand evidently has Google Ads. Of course, no word in the disclaimer about the ‘real’ Facebook. Like someone else acquired the French domain name, since as of today the redirection points to another social network called “FaceBook Paris”.
The whois registry does not reveal much of the identity of the owner (registered as anonymous ). The provocation goes a bit further since the social network which seems active is hosted on Ning , a service that allows you to create your own social network and that can be considered a competitor to Facebook.






