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Originally Posted by bwhhisc  Overall there is not much traffic to IDNs (yet) but that will change dramatically when browser support gets in place. IE7 which supports IDNs has not rolled out in Asia since being held back by Microsoft. They are currently saying it will be released in current 3rd quarter.
Regarding stats, one of the best examples is on the homepage of namedrive.com is a Thai language idn for sale (porno.com) getting 5000-6000 plus hits a month and earning about $35 per month currently. Thai domains are currently low paying per click, versus Japanese which average 10x higher overall. Google, Yahoo, Baidu etc are all positioning themselves into the IDN advertising market. |
It is true that most IDNs don't get much traffic. The fact that they get any natural traffic at all is itself amazing, since there are practically no real websites using IDN for URL - since most browsers do not support IDN, and many people don't even know IDNs exist. Even this forum itself, 99% of people don't think IDNs are domains!
Nonetheless there do are IDNs that get a few hundred type-ins a day traffic and traffic is increasing. But i must emphasize that these are very rare, and probably these are the ones that will get tens of thousands of views a day by the time IDNs go mainstream - like super ASCII names, sex.com, download.com, etc. So don't expect people with these names to show you stats!!
