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Originally Posted by Explorer  How would you explain that top IDN holders have domain portfolios across dozen or more languages? Not only they are not familiar with those languages, but also have trouble differentiate between some of them, like Arabic and Farsi. They saw an opportunity in registering that cellphone.com domain in the language they can't read, write or pronounce. Much like the people who couldn't speak, read or write English were registering premium domains in 95. |
The korean cellphone or handphone.com thing is not so simple. If you noticed, handphone.com is redirected to a korean website.
If local people can pay for handphone.com (can an ASCII guy tell me how much this costs?), it won't take a genius to know they got a great deal even at $40,000 for the Korean version of handphone.com!
People do their research, they don't throw in this kind of money just to buy just one IDN without knowing the end user market.