German IDN and .info goes for 5 figures

[Rubber Duck]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo



Wow, Tokyo is almost as big as Italy.

Yes, and I am really pissed that I only got the dot net!

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

Yes, it appears the death for english, foreign, ext's is near. Must be making a few investors nervous to hear.

Better get rid of those english .in's fast kids. India's next.

Totally agree and Dot IN IDN are in the pipe! Ok, if you got a selection of top keywords they are still going to be a good investment, but those think they have a captive market with an audience of 1 Billion are just deluding themselves.

I am very bullish about the Indian Market and we have made investments in Hindi, Bangla (Bengali), Punjabi, Urdu, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

[touchring]

I agree with those comments, but we have a similar wealth split in the UK with the North being much poorer than the South. London, the World's Financial Capital is by far the wealthiest City in Europe and the general standard of living there is much higher than anywhere in the old West Germany.

The shift in financial power in Europe is difficult for those who have not visited the UK in recent years to appreciate. The German's in particular don't come in the numbers that they used to because they find it too expensive! As for France, huge swathes of that have been bought up by Brits for second homes!

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

Standard of living index - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...elopment_Index

Rank Country HDI
1 Norway 0.963
2 Iceland 0.956
3 Australia 0.955
4 Luxembourg 0.949
5 Canada 0.949
6 Sweden 0.949
7 Switzerland 0.947
8 Republic of Ireland 0.946
9 Belgium 0.945
10 United States 0.944
11 Japan 0.943
12 Netherlands 0.943
13 Finland 0.941
14 Denmark 0.941
15 United Kingdom 0.939
16 France 0.938
17 Austria 0.936
18 Italy 0.934
19 New Zealand 0.933
20 Germany 0.930

Most notable is Australia in number 3 position, no cold winter.

[QuantumBeam]

........nice...

[jazzpetals]

could you explain what you mean by flat domain space? Also, could someone explain how to go about registering an idn name when you haven't a clue how to translate ascii into punycode? Is there a site that will do that for you if you type in an ascii name?

[Rubber Duck]

ASCII does not translate into Punycode. ASCII does not need to as it goes straight through the DNS. If you want to register extended Unicode Characters such as Chinese or Arabic if you input them directly as Domainsite.com it will translate to Punycode and then register that for you. For more information go to IDNForums.com.

Flat domain space is actually a bit of a misnomer in my opinion. The ideas is that you don't have extensions. Some companies sell Aliases or Keywords that with their pluggin will resolve to the domain name registered with them. This is, however, never going to work as it relies on the distribution of the pluggin. Those floggin and registering the Keywords would like everyone to install their pluggin, but the bottom line is nobody else is interested. The other problem is that Keywords can be duplicated by different companies doing the same thing.

Some probably genuinely feel that that the current registries will be scrapped. Believe me that is not going to happen for the same reasons as your computing experience today is suboptimal because of backward compatibility to 8086 processor.

I have recently put some concrete proposals forward to ICANN on an idea for Universal Keywords or Aliases, and have already received positive feedback.
A universal Keyword system is possilble, but only through implementation within the DNS itself.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

[jazzpetals]

Thanks Dave, for explaining..been wanting to register a couple IDN's for some time now to add to my portfolio but never had a clue as to how.

[ForumDomains]

could you explain what you mean by flat domain space? Also, could someone explain how to go about registering an idn name when you haven't a clue how to translate ascii into punycode? Is there a site that will do that for you if you type in an ascii name?

http://www.abac.com/IdnSubscription/Step1.jsf

[touchring]

Being able to translate ascii into punycode isn't much use - as far as i can see, virtually all major european generic domains are registered.

In fact, the Germans got to go after .info for 5 figure price - an example of just how desperate the situation is - when the .com and .de holders will not let go.

[Rubber Duck]

Being able to translate ascii into punycode isn't much use - as far as i can see, virtually all major european generic domains are registered.

In fact, the Germans got to go after .info for 5 figure price - an example of just how desperate the situation is.

Well the knowledge barriers to entry were very small, the numbers of opportunities scarce, as only words that have accents are applicable.

Like all landrushes, it is a once off opportunity and certainly as far the German IDN market is concerned the initial landrush is over, and it would appear that IDN are becoming mainstream in the secondary market.

There was only one initial Dot Com offering, and there is only going to be one opportunity to cash in IDN. In the Chinese and Japanese markets most of the best domain went ages ago. Here it was a little easier, as the Chinese were quite a bit behind the Germans in terms of being domain savy, and it was much more of a challenge identifying the right targets. I think, however, you can say that the landrush is virtually over here too.

In South Asia, there are still a huge areas of opportunity, as they have only just got their Unicode sorted out. Getting translations is still very difficult and that has slowed things down a lot. Also, the market has yet to come to any clear conclusions about the viability of IDN in places like India. It will take a little time and whilst it does the door is still open.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

[ctc]

Is it possible to register greek.infos?

No. just com and net....