Do you know what IDNs are?
IDNs are “Internationalized Domain Names”. All domain names are spelled in English but to us speakers of the English language (many of us native and our only language), it never occurs to us that the rest of the world is essentially typing their domains in a language different to the [...]
Quick follow-up on my post about IDNs from few days ago:
In the post I wrote that IDNs have not performed all-too well traffic-wise, in my experience. However, I asked a fellow German domainer, Nico Zeifang, who owns some high-value IDNs, for his opinion on this topic. He was so kind to share his experiences and some traffic numbers in the post’s comments [...]
How does becoming wealthier than Frank Schilling sound? Schilling, the most successful individual domainer in the world, has a portfolio of about 300,000 names, estimated revenue of $20 million dollars per year, and has received several 9-figures offers for his portfolio. Yet according to long-time IDN investor and …
Looking for a domain name expressed in a foreign language? With GoDaddy’s 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 [...]
The Peruvian namespace .PE will soon be open to Spanish character domain names. An initial priority registration period is currently underway. Spanish characters are all the rage at the moment. After Spain’s own domain, .ES, both .INFO and .BIZ have recently announced plans to offer Spanish-language characters. Peru is doing the same with 7 characters [...]
Six new international domain names for the Internet have been launched by Sterling-based Neustar, Inc. for companies that do business in a variety of languages worldwide. NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) has added Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian , Polish and Portuguese in the .biz top-level Internet domain.
In 2007, the word “stock” beat out the word “sex” for the top search term for Google China. Amazingly, so did two other company names, China Merchants Bank and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, both hot IPO A-share stocks from last year. There is an intense battle going on in the Chinese economy for growth. From [...]
