zedtv.com

**unclewilco** · 01-02-2003, 04:32 AM

is zed dead baby or was i fooled?

getting about 8-14 typeins a day this week. (no not me!)

**draqon** · 01-02-2003, 04:34 AM

you know that America and much of the english speaking world doesnt use that letter of the alphabet, right? so unless zedtv means something in particular, which is very possible, then the domain's market is highly limited.

**DomainPairs** · 01-02-2003, 04:40 AM

With apologies for jumping on one of my hobby horses.

"zed" is the last letter of the English alphabet, and is therefore used by all English speaking people. Some derivatives and subsets have a different pronunciation.

**draqon** · 01-02-2003, 04:45 AM

the thing is, 95 out of 100 Americans (yes, even educated Americans) won't know what the heck a Zed is. So it doesnt matter if we have our own similar letter, that word is foreign and unfamiliar.

**DomainPairs** · 01-02-2003, 06:05 AM

Most English seem to know what a "zee" is.

Google gives 417,000 pages for zed and 910,000 pages for zee. Zee is not just an alternative pronunciation for the letter, I believe it also has a few other meanings - Zuider Zee gives about 3,000 hits.

Reports of the death of "zed" are greatly exaggerated.

**unclewilco** · 01-02-2003, 09:45 AM

glad its providing a lesson in english,

(and for me)

but is it worth anything to anyone, even if they/you don't speak the lingo?

thanks

**Manic** · 01-02-2003, 10:28 AM

Originally posted by draqon
you know that America and much of the english speaking world doesnt use that letter of the alphabet, right? so unless zedtv means something in particular, which is very possible, then the domain's market is highly limited.

"zee" = American.

"zed" = English + the rest of the English speaking world.

**namedropper** · 01-02-2003, 02:17 PM

Originally posted by Manic

"zee" = American.

"zed" = English + the rest of the English speaking world.

Which means zed is pretty worthless overall.

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**unclewilco** · 01-02-2003, 04:25 PM

thanks dropper

anyone else?

**DomainPairs** · 01-02-2003, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by namedropper

Which means zed is pretty worthless overall.

At the moment America seems to be trying to polarise the net into America and the rest of the world. I would say that this action would result in non-American domains ending up worth more than US ones. Where do I get this this idea of polarisation.

AOL/ICQ attitudes
Microsoft
recent Trademark laws
American banking (Visa etc.)
Ebay/Paypal

The list can be extended considerably.

Nearly half a million pages in Google means that Zed lives on, anyone care to work out how many of google's zees refer to the letter. It may be fewer than Zed (shock horror in the US

)

**Banned: DrWho** · 01-02-2003, 04:52 PM

In Amateur Radio we refer to â€œZâ€ as zed. (i.e. N1Z or â€œnovember 1 zedâ€)

In the military the letter Z is phonetically referred to as zulu (i.e. A=Alpha, B=Bravo, D=Delta and so on... Z=Zulu)

ZULU is also a time reference. For Example:

The world is divided into 24 time zones. For easy reference in communications, a letter of the alphabet has been assigned to each time zone (less the letters "I" and "O"). The "clock" at Greenwich, England is used as the standard clock for international reference of time in communications, military, maritime and other activities that cross time zones. The letter designator for this clock is Z.

Times are usually written in military time or 24 hour format such as 1830Z. To pronounce this, the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter Z, or Zulu. This time is sometimes referred to as Zulu Time because of its assigned letter. It's official name is Coordinated Universal Time or UTC. Previously it had been known as Greenwich Mean Time or GMT but this has been replaced with UTC.

**unclewilco** · 01-02-2003, 05:01 PM

DomainPairs,

i agree but maybe not the place to get into a

what have the americans everydone for .us and what they are doing to the net..

but i will just stand on our british laurels and what we have given the world.

but as iam welsh, i can't really reply on behalf of the english, scots, irish, cornish, manx and others

so my little list close to my heart.

sheep
brains sa
micheal owen
tom jones
ms c church
leeks
JD
rain

more at
http://www.famouswelsh.com/ not my site but true every word of it..

**DomainPairs** · 01-02-2003, 05:02 PM

I think it's sad that they have to attempt to destroy history by renaming things in common usage. What will be next. I expect the Winchester hard drive will be renamed because it was developed in England.

**unclewilco** · 01-02-2003, 05:03 PM

drwho not into Amateur Radio but i once heard someone say..

"the internet, CB radio for the 90s"

ok i did not laugh either..

thanks for your reply..

**namedropper** · 01-02-2003, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by DomainPairs

At the moment America seems to be trying to polarise the net into America and the rest of the world. I would say that this action would result in non-American domains ending up worth more than US ones.

How do you figure? If things are polarized, the non-U.S. ones just keep getting worse and worse in value.

Nearly half a million pages in Google means that Zed lives on, anyone care to work out how many of google's zees refer to the letter. It may be fewer than Zed (shock horror in the US )

Most of the time we don't spell "Z" as "Zee" so I wouldn't expect those Google matches to mean anything. If we talk about a letter of the alphabet, we just write it as a letter... A, C, P, Z, whatever. The concept that someone thinks they need to tack more letters onto it to make it appear to be the letter is rather quaint and archaic.

If this name were Ztv.com it'd have a lot more use, but even then it'd still be pretty silly and not all that commercial.

What's the name supposed to be used for?

**unclewilco** · 01-03-2003, 02:18 AM

thanks guys.

its good to get some discussion going.... from you lot.

btw i believe it is an indian tv channel as well

and http://zed.cbc.ca/aboutUs.do

i just liked it....! and bought it before searching ...