German: ... aus welchen Domänen ...English translation: to track the referring domains 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | festhalten, aus welchen Domänen ... | | English translation: | to track the referring domains | | Entered by: | Deborah Shannon |
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Internet, e-Commerce | | German term or phrase: ... aus welchen Domänen ... | I'd be grateful for any help with the following sentence which is from the \"Terms and Conditions of Use\" of an Internet carrier company. My attempts so far sound a bit awkward.
\"Wir halten fest, aus welchen Domänen unsere Webbesucher kommen\".
I thought at first of \"We take records of the domains of our web visitors\", but that would imply that people who access their site have their own domain, which might not necessarily be the case, wouldn\'t it?
Thanks for any help! |
| | | we track the referring domains of visitors to our site(s) | Explanation:
Most visitors would be referred via an Internet domain one way or another, a certain percentage could probably not be categorised in that way.
I doubt the alternative of 'business sector' could be tracked by software so easily, so find that solution unlikely.
For a description of visitor tracking procedures in English see below:
HTH DShannon |
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 Deborah Shannon
United Kingdom
| Note from asker to answererThanks a lot for your help with that sentence, and thanks to Ulrike, too, for confirming!
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| which business sectors
Explanation:
Using "domains" would indeed be confusing, even if correct. If they had meant "domains" in the Internet sense, then I think they would have said "Bereichsnamen" or "Domänenname". So I do think they mean that:
"We will record from which business sectors our web visitors come from". This also makes commercial sense.
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| Alexander Schleber
Belgium
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Native speaker of:  German, English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| we track the referring domains of visitors to our site(s)
Explanation:
Most visitors would be referred via an Internet domain one way or another, a certain percentage could probably not be categorised in that way.
I doubt the alternative of 'business sector' could be tracked by software so easily, so find that solution unlikely.
For a description of visitor tracking procedures in English see below:
HTH DShannon
Reference: http://www.tigerherbs.com/eclectica/freedom/visitrack.html
| Deborah Shannon
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 12
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks a lot for your help with that sentence, and thanks to Ulrike, too, for confirming! |
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| domains
Explanation:
Your first instinct was right (and so is Academic), the system tracks the domain which referred the visitor to the website. Last year, I was involved in translating a tracking software package -- it was quite an eye opener to find out how much information on the visitor can be collected. Tracking the referring domain or the referring website is very common.
Daten- und Kommunikationstechnik Deutsch-Englisch : Domain f (Net) / domain n (a group of commonly administered clients and servers)
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| Ulrike Lieder
United States
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Native speaker of: German
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