Comments on: How to Get Started with IDNs http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: WMA http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5433 WMA Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:14:14 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5433 The other day I spotted a post on idnforums that an Arabic com IDN is getting 5k typins with $150 USD revenue everyday. I personally own an idn that gets 700 daily typins. The other day I spotted a post on idnforums that an Arabic com IDN is getting 5k typins with $150 USD revenue everyday. I personally own an idn that gets 700 daily typins.

]]> By: David Wrixon http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5227 David Wrixon Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:52:26 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5227 Thanks Sahar, We really are going to have to get past this dot Com investor classification though. Dot Coms is exactly what I am in invested in, just not Latin Dot Coms. My domains are part of the same registry as your domains, and in most parts of the World they press exactly the same buttons. Traffic is still an issue with IDN, but browser support is still missing to a large extent in most markets. We are now past 50% in Russia and traffic is growing steadily there, which is encouraging because Russia is actually the one place where dot Com never made much impact previously. The Auto Updates of IE7 start February 13th in the Far East. This could start to make a huge difference, particularly in Japan where $5 per click payouts are quite common. I amazed why Traffic is such a barrier to investment. IDN are already attracting a hell of lot more traffic than dot Mobi! Thanks Sahar,

We really are going to have to get past this dot Com investor classification though. Dot Coms is exactly what I am in invested in, just not Latin Dot Coms. My domains are part of the same registry as your domains, and in most parts of the World they press exactly the same buttons.

Traffic is still an issue with IDN, but browser support is still missing to a large extent in most markets. We are now past 50% in Russia and traffic is growing steadily there, which is encouraging because Russia is actually the one place where dot Com never made much impact previously. The Auto Updates of IE7 start February 13th in the Far East. This could start to make a huge difference, particularly in Japan where $5 per click payouts are quite common.

I amazed why Traffic is such a barrier to investment. IDN are already attracting a hell of lot more traffic than dot Mobi!

]]> By: JacksonM http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5205 JacksonM Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:21:41 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5205 At the time when people were hand-registering prime ascii domains, they were also considered as highly speculative investments. Nobody really knew if the internet was going to take off or not back between 1994 and 1996. One thing is for sure, there certainly have been a lot of IDN registrations popping up lately at Moniker with Whois Privacy enabled. As well, I have seen IDNs across multiple languages registered to at least one big and well known ASCII player who doesn't feel the need to hide his IDN registrations behind Whois Privacy. It could very well be that the big boys are publicly downplaying IDN while they are privately acquiring in stealth. Most of the high-value IDN sales of late have been kept under the radar which NDAs required by the buyers, not the sellers. What do you think is really going on? At the time when people were hand-registering prime ascii domains, they were also considered as highly speculative investments. Nobody really knew if the internet was going to take off or not back between 1994 and 1996.

One thing is for sure, there certainly have been a lot of IDN registrations popping up lately at Moniker with Whois Privacy enabled. As well, I have seen IDNs across multiple languages registered to at least one big and well known ASCII player who doesn’t feel the need to hide his IDN registrations behind Whois Privacy.

It could very well be that the big boys are publicly downplaying IDN while they are privately acquiring in stealth. Most of the high-value IDN sales of late have been kept under the radar which NDAs required by the buyers, not the sellers. What do you think is really going on?

]]> By: Christian Diamodn http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5187 Christian Diamodn Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:47 +0000 http://www.conceptualist.com/2008/01/28/how-to-get-started-with-idns/#comment-5187 Hi Sahar, What are your thoughts on straight-out (non-IDN) foreign .com names, specifically Spanish? With the number of foreign users coming online, are you sticking in the ccTLD (ie .es or .ar) or would you go .com for any name no matter what the language? Thanks! ~Christian Hi Sahar,

What are your thoughts on straight-out (non-IDN) foreign .com names, specifically Spanish? With the number of foreign users coming online, are you sticking in the ccTLD (ie .es or .ar) or would you go .com for any name no matter what the language?

Thanks!

~Christian

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