Opinions on IDNs?

I've recently bought a few. What are your thoughts on them?

 

I personal like IDNs very much.

And I believe that IDN will getting better in near future...

 

TBH,


It really depends. Just like ASCII, there are crap IDNs. In general, I think they are really good.

 

I think they're kinda overrated, but maybe they'll have their day.

 

I make pretty good revenue from them. Russian IDNs are the best, I believe. French, Spanish, Swedish, German, and Polish are very good, too. Lots of traffic and decent revenue. Japanese IDNs have less traffic but the revenue per visitor is incredible!

Some IDNs are better than others, like ASCII domains. Good domain names are good domain names.

 

Exactly, most of my Chinese & Japanese IDNs have generated more page view & revenues in Nov.

 

下北沢の古書店「ビビビ」店主、日本語ドメイン「俺の店.jp」を取得

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071130-00000000-hsk_sm-l13

 

[俺の店] - sounds very brandable -


俺の店 -
In Chinese - [俺的店]; [我的店]
In English - [My Store]; [My Shop]

I like it

 

I get a lot of traffic to Japanese. Mostly adult terms and hotel terms. These do surprisingly well:

東京ホテルズ.com Tokyo Hotels
横浜ホテルズ.com Yokahoma Hotels
大阪ホテルズ.com Osaka Hotels
京都ホテルズ.com Kyoto Hotels
沖縄ホテルズ.com Okinawa Hotels
神戸ホテルズ.com Kobe Hotels
長崎ホテルズ.com Nagasaki Hotels
千葉ホテルズ.com Chiba Hotels
埼玉ホテルズ.com Saitama Hotels
浜松ホテルズ.com Hamamatsu Hotels
川崎ホテルズ.com Kawasaki Hotels
札幌ホテルズ.com Sapporo Hotels

 

All very nice IDN !

 

JPRS registry for .JP has put out a new flash based game to teach people about Japanese domain names and .JP in particular.

http://japan.internet.com/webtech/20071015/3.html

 

I agree, good ones.. And it is very interesting to see IDNs listed in the top results of Google.

I hope IDNs have better days in the not-so-distant future...

 

what makes idns overrated a .com is a .com right? spanish .coms sell german .coms sell whats wrong with korean.coms? or chinese .coms .com is king or something like that?

 

GoDaddy now allows IDN registration:

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/registrar/idn.asp?ci=10645

Start your Internationalized Domain Name Search Here!

Looking for a domain name expressed in a foreign language? With our Internationalized Domain Name search capabilities, you can register .COM and .NET domain names in over 100 native languages (non-ASCII characters) such as Chinese, Japanese and Arabic or in standard ASCII character format. For example: пустыня (Russian word for "desert") is equivalent to xn--m1adged4c3a in ASCII.

 

I got suckered into buying some after hearing the hype on here

English/Sweden . net in Arabic, as well as hosting (not web hosting, the guest kind).

Small investment... hopefully it'll pay off eh

 

No one will mind if you leave some for the rest of us.

Seriously, it would be great to see what you can develop if you are an Arabic speaker. Would love to see your Arabic web sites!

 

Can't speak Arabic for nuts mate. Only reason I have guest hosting instead of web hosting is because I asked someone for a translation and he gave me the wrong one!

 

im on a idn-registering-diet. ive been clean for 2 weeks or so.

 

I finished up my fresh regs. I have a couple of more lists that I could go after, but why not leave some for the rest of the pack?

Seriously, it is a hard habit to break, but the only way to focus on development. Now.... Where to start? By language? Topic area? Hmmm.... Topic area is getting a little boring (ForEx, Credit, etc.).

Get a new hobby and things will be just fine, tbh. Web master is a good title. Sites are a good hobby.

 

Cybercafé.com -- i like.

but yes, just taking a break, I think I have enough names for me to be more than happy in a few years.