discuss Domains using American vs British English spelling

[Domainer47]

What are your thoughts on the value of domains ending in ize vs ise such as recognize.com vs recognise.com or apologise.com vs apologize.com?

Does the fact that confusion and differences exist over the spelling of these words mean that they should be avoided by domainers with small portfolios and less capital?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts and sorry if this has been covered before, I couldn't find a thread on it here so thought I would ask.

 

[dirk]

As far as I know in Britain both versions (s/z) are accepted as correct spelling although the 's' is preferred and used in general.

In US English the 's' version would be considered a misspelling. Therefore, the z version has my preference as an investor. Personally I feel British English is more sophisticated and I prefer to use this spelling myself.

What is comes down to I think are the number of native speakers. Although there are more people using British English globally the number of people who are fluent/native at US English outnumber the people who are fluent/native British English speakers.

 

[GoodKindName]

I believe it solely depends on the extension. If it's .com I would always go with American spelling because it's US extension. Yes, it's kinda globally used gTLD but it dominates in US and strongly preferred over the official .us country code. If it's uk, co.uk, I would surely choose British spelling. It's cool to have both options in dot com but when your target market doesn't care about another spelling, I wouldn't care about it either

 

[LUP]

Interesting topic

I think we should look at search results on search engines. if the result is more, then that is what I will use, because it is more common

 

[Jeffrey]

American English is more widespread and influential at the moment.

 

[CraigD]

American English is more widespread and influential at the moment.

Where did you get that information?

India uses British english... that's 1.3 billion people in just one country.

The commonwealth contains 2.4 billion people, most of whom will speak british english as a first, or second language.

 

[noneisnone]

Where did you get that information?

I think you will find that India uses British english... that's 1.3 billion people in just one country.

allot of middle eastern countries do as well from the time the Brits colonized the middle east

 

[Jeffrey]

Where did you get that information?

India uses British english... that's 1.3 billion people in just one country.

The commonwealth contains 2.4 billion people, most of whom will speak british english as a first, or second language.

"Linguist Braj Kachru (an Indian), quoted by The Christian Science Monitor in 1996, stated that "American English is spreading faster than British English". The Monitor stated that English taught in Europe and the Commonwealth is more British-influenced, while English taught in Latin America is more American-influenced; however, most English use outside the classroom is more influenced by the United States: Americans greatly outnumber Britons; in addition, as of 1993, the United States originated 75 per cent of the world's TV programming.[57] A BBC columnist assessed in 2015 that "American English is the current dominant force globally, like it or not"

https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0904/090496.intl.global.1.html

Hollywood is most likely the great factor of this influence.

 

[CraigD]

"Linguist Braj Kachru (an Indian), quoted by The Christian Science Monitor in 1996, stated that "American English is spreading faster than British English". The Monitor stated that English taught in Europe and the Commonwealth is more British-influenced, while English taught in Latin America is more American-influenced; however, most English use outside the classroom is more influenced by the United States: Americans greatly outnumber Britons; in addition, as of 1993, the United States originated 75 per cent of the world's TV programming.[57] A BBC columnist assessed in 2015 that "American English is the current dominant force globally, like it or not"

https://www.csmonitor.com/1996/0904/090496.intl.global.1.html

Hollywood is most likely the great factor of this influence.

Thanks.

Yes Hollywood and social media no doubt.

I've seen that same phrase - ''spreading faster"- used in the couple of reports I looked up also. It doesn't actually imply that American english is more widely used, only that it is spreading faster than its British counterpart in classrooms.

I've been trying to find accurate figures myself.

I think that a lot of people who use american english on social media do so simply because the software defaults to that setting for speech recognition and spell check, while in the real world, they probably use more british english.

 

[CraigD]

allot of middle eastern countries do as well from the time the Brits colonized the middle east

Yes I agree. The empire covered a quarter of the globe.

Also south-east Asia nations like Hong Kong / China Malaysia and Singapore that were settled by or traded with the Empire.

 

[Maksimus]

Arbour vs Arbor, By what percentage will the British version be cheaper than the American one?

Thank you.