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Sorin Adam Matei

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Why do chinese prefer numbers over letters in their URLs? Not only to avoid translation

The preference of some Chinese sites to use numbers over letters in their domain names has something to do, as you might imagine, with the complexity of translating Chinese characters into latin characters. There is, however, a little bit more to it than…