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Originally Posted by BILLBO  RD, politeness never cost money! 
Touch, the reason for my saying that domainers should be at least familiar with the language concerned when it comes to IDN's is the fact that I have seen IDN's for sale that have not been correct or are simply 'punctuation' in the language concerned, sometimes even archaic forms as well. |
I've seen names sold for a few grand - on this forum - and the word is not the correct translation or is an obscure translation.
It happens, especially when the seller himself doesn't know the language and depends on online dictionaries for the translation - these are extremely unreliable - they fail almost all the time. So, can you say these are scams? No, the sellers don't even have a clue what they are selling!
Experience IDNers will not buy on translation alone - they will check OVT, Google Trends and OVT bid values. I'm very careful, i don't buy a name that doesn't meet a certain OVT or Google trends target, regardless of translation.
There is tough competition going on to procure premium IDNs. People will not talk, no one tells you how to find premium IDNs or how to where to find them. Big ASCII players are in the market - at least for latin IDNs - i know because i've seen big names in WHOIS, and names that were registered like since 2001 - they must be bought. There is a big underground movement the past year or so.
Well, this is not unusual, when there is money, most people won't talk.