November 10, 2004

So what does the name of this site, "Eigodaigaku" mean anyway? Eigodagaku is made up two Japanese words, Eigo meaning English and daigaku, meaning university. So Eigodaigaku might be translated as "Englishuniversity".

Even until recently, and perhaps until this very day, there are many domain names available for non-English words. I am sure that it would be very difficult to purchase "Englishunviersity.com" (yep, someone has already purchased it) but I was spoilt for choice when I bought the domain name for this site. I also purchased a few others such as (with the English translation and Web Sites, not necessarily recommended, in brackets): chattoru-mu.com (chatroom.com) webucamu.com (webcam.com) and both bulogu.com and burogu.com (blog.com) by way of investment. I think that these Internet related words may be here to stay and will become more popular in the future, at least on the Internet.

If you are a non-English speaker then I bet there are some domain names in your language that are not yet taken but may be of value in the future. I would recommend domains ending in "dot com" if you want to have a website that is internationally recognised. You can see if a domain is available and even purchase it at sites such as godaddy.com (I am not affiliated in any way.)