dnjournal's this week's sales chart - two IDNs on top!

[jaugusto]

Pair of Six-Figure .DE Domains Including the Largest IDN Sale Ever Reported Lead This Week's Abbreviated Sales Chart

Christmas is just two days away and many offices have already shut down or at least let key staffers head home early. That was the case at sedo this week. With our normal contact person on holiday, we did not receive their usual sales data report and were unable to reach any of our many other contacts there to track it down. Since sedo often accounts for as many as half of the sales reported in any given week, we have abbreviated our usual Top 20 charts to accommodate the reduced data set available.

The chart toppers are a pair of previously unreported six figure .de (German ccTLD) sales, including one that ranks as the highest IDN sale ever reported (easily eclipsing Büromöbel.de - a sale that we reported just last week at $100,749). The new reigning champion is Gartenmöbel.de ("garden furniture" in German), sold by DomainInvest.lu for a stunning €150,000 ($214,500). They also sold the other domain that tied for first - one that makes up a matching set - the non-IDN Gartenmoebel.de.

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/dom...9/20091230.htm

[stbmax]

Nice Article, Jose.
Interesting to see the IDN version, gets "twice the traffic", of the ascii version, which the same buyer, purchased, last year.

[bwhhisc]

Nice Article, Jose.
Interesting to see the IDN version, gets "twice the traffic", of the ascii version, which the same buyer, purchased, last year.

Time to call Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory team to look into that claim.

[DomainsInc]

i'd love to see/hear the conversation that convinced this guy that the domains were each worth 150k eur.

[TheLegendaryJP]

< FOOL ____________________________________ HIS MONEY >

[FormerDnForumer]

< FOOL ____________________________________ HIS MONEY >

hahaha nice one Josh.

[Fearless]

Willard, that's not really an IDN, it's simply a German domain name.

The main reason this domain is worth so much is that Germans never tagged their domains with umlauts (ä, ö, and ü) with the "IDN" stigma.

It's just a simple German domain name.

Thank God sedo also changed this a few days ago. They are now calling these domains Multi-Lingual.

Seems like they read my forum posts... I have been saying this all along.

Go to eBay and do a search for "IDN", to find out why we all need to get rid of the "IDN" tag.

Did Ron Jackson get the memo?

[stbmax]

Fool...I think NOT.

Obviously, the company was aware that it was receiving double, the traffic, of their ascii version.
Which would mean, in most cases, produce double the revenue, as well.
I guess they liked the numbers, and weren't prepared to lose it to a competitor, by dicking around.

The end users, haven't even jumped into the market yet, in most cases, but when they do.....well you know the results.

[TheLegendaryJP]

Fool...I think NOT.

I agree

[bwhhisc]

Did Ron Jackson get the memo?

büromöbel is an idn in most all tlds.
punycode is: xn--brombel-d1a4c
Below is definition of an IDN from Wikipedia; I think this one qualifies under the definition.

büromöbel.com
xn--brombel-d1a4c.com Taken - whois website
büromöbel.net
xn--brombel-d1a4c.net Taken - whois website
büromöbel.org
xn--brombel-d1a4c.org Taken - whois website
büromöbel.biz
xn--brombel-d1a4c.biz Taken - whois website
büromöbel.info
xn--brombel-d1a4c.info Taken - whois website
büromöbel.name
xn--brombel-d1a4c.name Taken - whois website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...ed_domain_name

Internationalized Domain Name
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Chinese, Russian or the Latin-based languages with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte Unicode. Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.

The Domain Name System, which performs a lookup service to translate user-friendly names into network addresses for locating Internet resources, is restricted to the use of ASCII characters, a technical limitation that initially set the standard for acceptable domain names. The internationalization of domain names is a technical solution to translate names written in language-native scripts into an ASCII text representation that is compatible with the Domain Name System. Internationalized domain names can only be used with applications that are specifically designed for such use, and they require no changes in the infrastructure of the Internet.

[Fearless]

büromöbel is an idn in most all tlds.

Ron Jackson is reporting on a specific TLD, .de, not most all TLDs.

[bwhhisc]

Ron Jackson is reporting on a specific TLD, .de, not most all TLDs.

Semantics...lol, the guy bought two domains...once in pure latin letters and one with umlauts...which by definition is an IDN. But you can split hairs.

buromobel and büromöbel

BTW- did you ever give Ed at Namedrive a shout and ask about type-in and revenue to IDNs?
How about year over year trends (up....no make that WAY up), and the biggie....do some IDNs really make x,xxx from type in alone? (answer:yup)

The last great domain gold rush in your lifetime and you choose to miss it.
Oh well, you can bring a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

[TheLegendaryJP]

The last great domain gold rush in your lifetime and you choose to miss it.

Fool's gold I kid I kid....

[Rubber Duck]

Ron Jackson is reporting on a specific TLD, .de, not most all TLDs.

You will no doubt be looking forward to next weeks report to get the Lowdown on sedo's IDN.eu auction which included quite a few five figures sales, and the totally sales inventory ran into thousands.

Sorry, but if all this talk of IDN nauseates you, it is time to switch channels, cuz there is a lot more where that came from.

[DomainsInc]

You will no doubt be looking forward to next weeks report to get the Lowdown on sedo's IDN.eu auction which included quite a few five figures sales, and the totally sales inventory ran into thousands.

Sorry, but if all this talk of IDN nauseates you, it is time to switch channels, cuz there is a lot more where that came from.

there is plenty of room for idn's in the domain world. this sale, in my opinion is a rarity. gardenfurniture.com doesn't even receive much traffic. i could only imagine the trickle that comes from germans typing in the geman language .de version. however, keep in mind that .asia,mobi and eu all had big sales initally too.

[Rubber Duck]

there is plenty of room for idn's in the domain world. this sale, in my opinion is a rarity. gardenfurniture.com doesn't even receive much traffic. i could only imagine the trickle that comes from germans typing in the geman language .de version. however, keep in mind that .asia,mobi and eu all had big sales initally too.

So you think IDN.de is new launch?

Do you actually know anything about this industry that you didn't read in the Beano?

[DomainsInc]

So you think IDN.de is new launch?

Do you actually know anything about this industry that you didn't read in the Beano?

correct me if i am wrong but weren't idn previously "unusable"? if not, what was all of the recent news about?

[Rubber Duck]

correct me if i am wrong but weren't idn previously "unusable"? if not, what was all of the recent news about?

Only if you are still using IE6, in which case they still are!

[bwhhisc]

correct me if i am wrong but weren't idn previously "unusable"? if not, what was all of the recent news about?

Your kind of right...IDNs have been around since 2000' but without Microsoft browser support until Internet Explorer 7 arrived. That was the first MS browser to be IDN compatable....and it was a bit late releasing in Asia, so it is still building up towards critical mass. Prior to that Verisign offered a "plug-ins" for IDNs but that was never a successful solution so they kind of languished in the background.

The recent news was about idn.idn. Meaning that .com, .net, .jp, .cn, etc etc will be allowed to be displayed in the various foreign languages. Existing idn.com holders will have the rights to the idn.idn version. Many people felt that there would be ALL NEW idn.idns coming for .com etc with sunrise, etc etc. Others thought that ascii.com holders would be given idn.idn of their domains. Neither of those scenerios turned out to be correct. Those that followed the 10 year process for IDNs thru GNSO, GAC, ICANN, and Verisign meetings, papers and reports had it pegged that the existing idn.gtlds and idn.cctlds would "alias" to idn.idn.

[katherine]

Your kind of right...IDNs have been around since 2000' but without Microsoft browser support until Internet Explorer 7 arrived. That was the first MS browser to be IDN compatable....

Actually competing browsers such as Firefox, Opera etc have been IDN-capable for years, well before ie7