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Originally Posted by italiandragon That was one of my questions before I was banned last week for a joke of mines. Then that thread disappeared too I guess for mistake because I did not offend anyone or I hope so.
I was concerned about the fact that how come we are in 2006 and there is still plenty of IDN .com names? It seems that in the past years chinese and other people from IDN countries did not reg any......why?
Just last month I saw domain.net unregistered in chinese.....and now it is from someone but not me. I wonder HOW can a name like that being unregistered if that should be of so much worth.
I`m afraid it`s all hot hair because I can`t imagine how all this time chinese people did not reg them.
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There is some confusion with Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
Unless you actually try to register them, it can be difficult to tell whether they are registered or not. That is because Simplified and Traditional are considered similar to upper and lower cases and duplicate registration is now blocked at the registries. If the Simplified is showing available it is probably because the equivalent in Japanese or Traditional Characters is already taken. You will only know for certain if it is available once you attempt to register it. Not a good system I know.
There has been a massive amount of delay and confusion with IDN. Most of the domains I have dropped because the original registrants wrote off their investments. The change over from RACE to Puny Code and the decision by Network Solutions the original main registrar to discontinue support of IDNs caused much of the confusion. The original registrants either had to transfer their names or loose them.
I think you will find that in reality it is very difficult now to nail a Good Japanese or Chinese name. Even in Arabic and Russian most of the best terms have gone. There are still huge opportunities with Hindi, but that is because there is a general perception amongst domainers that Indians will only use English to access the Internet. I am heavily invested in these as I obviously don't share that view.
Apologies for delay
Dave