電動車.中国(Electric car) sold at 12000 CNY,数码相机.cn 10050CNY

[dnol]

電動車.中国(Electric car) sold at 12000 CNY
or 17xx USD

数码相机.cn (digital camera)sold at 10050CNY

or $15xx

minutes before


塑料.中国 Plastic sold at 23xx USD just now.
中藥.中国 Traditional Chinese Medicine sold at 17xx USD





via two China auction site.

[brian1234]

Hi,

What is the name of this website?

[dnol]

I will PM you the site

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by dnol

電動車.中国(Electric car) sold at 12000 CNY
or 17xx USD
数码相机.cn (digital camera)sold at 10050CNY $15xx
塑料.中国 Plastic sold at 23xx USD just now.
中藥.中国 Traditional Chinese Medicine sold at 17xx USD
via two China auction site.

Sold dirt cheap. It's "1997" in terms of IDN prices in China. What an opportunity. 99.99% of Chinese internet users still don't know about IDNs. That is all about to change when ICANN rolls out their (new) IDN.IDN in full unicode next year and it all hits the media.

Just to clarify, ALL of these domains are actually .cn, only that thru aliasing by certain dns-servers .cn now maps to .中国.

This aliasing to .idn is what most IDN holders are hoping will happen for all languages and scripts to take IDN.com and IDN.net to IDN.idn(.com idn equivalent) and IDN.net(.net idn equivalent) via aliasing as proposed in the Verisign report on DNAME equivalents.

[brian1234]

Originally Posted by dnol

I will PM you the site

Thanks for the pm DNOL, but this info now needs to be made public.

Here are the sites he refers to:

66.cn
ename.cn

We are witnessing internet history here folks!.. Stand in line...

Cheers,

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by brian1234

Thanks for the pm DNOL, but this info now needs to be made public. Here are the sites he refers to:
66.cn ename.cn We are witnessing internet history here folks!.. Stand in line... Cheers,

http://ename.cn/

As the IDNers say, welcome to the 'parallel universe' of domaining.
Enter at your own risk. LOL

[brian1234]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

http://ename.cn/

As the IDNers say, welcome to the 'parallel universe' of domaining.
Enter at your own risk. LOL

Bill, I can remember trying to talk to people about IDN's in 2002 and was repeatedly laughed at. Now, nearly seven years later, people are still a little suspicious (and there's still a long way to go) BUT how on earth can you argue with early sales like this?!

Napoleon, was supposed to have said "let China sleep, for when she wakes the world will shake".. So, even 200 years ago they were talkin' about idn.cn !!

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by brian1234

Bill, I can remember trying to talk to people about IDN's in 2002 and was repeatedly laughed at. Now, nearly seven years later, people are still a little suspicious (and there's still a long way to go) BUT how on earth can you argue with early sales like this?!

Those sales are minsicule. There bulk of sales are going on behind closed doors with non-disclosures.
A hundred or so reported sales can be found at idntools.com in the IDN sales lists. A lot of parallels to values of ASCII names over the last 10 years, only with IDN we are back the 90's. The difference will be that when ICANN opens the hatch next year with idn.idn and browser support for IDN is well adapted, things will happen a whole lot faster.