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Originally Posted by Raider  Thanks for posting something with substance, May I ask why the revenue is so low for 5000-6000 hits? ... I own an adult generic .com with 4000 hits a month and I'm earning over $300 a month from that name alone. If you can post a snapshot, I would appreciate it. |
Hi Raider, that name is not mine...but was a good example and verifiable since Namedrive is posting the statistics off their system and it is posted under their park & sell on their home page.
My best steady PPC performer is "Classmates.com" in Russian which earns about $10 - $12 a month, still not bad for a $7 a year investment. PPC is currently low in many languages, but again these markets are just developing for advertising and revenues and they will (hopefully) increase over time along with traffic and typeins.
July 2007 month to date- Classmates.com (Russian)
одноклассники(dot)com US$ 9.24 revenue 857 hits 522 clicks 61% ctr, US $ 0.02
Not impressive traffic by ASCII standards, but potential to go up 10x to 100x down the road,
or better yet I hope to find a buyer at minimum selling price in the xx,xxx range someday.
Some notes: Currently less than 10% of Russia internet users can access IDNs so traffic is weak.
The same in China, Japan etc. Finally, after a long wait (remember most top IDN keywords were
registered in year 2000), all of the pieces of the IDN system are about to be realized.
(1) The ICANN unicode/punycode system for idns is in place, tested and working
(2) monetization and parking is now provided by companies like Namedrive, Yahoo, and Google
(3) FINALLY...we will get the critical last piece of the puzzle this year... which is Browser
support by Microsoft IE7 and Vista.
IDN should still be considered a speculative investment but a lot of the unknowns a year ago
are known now. There is massive registration by native domainers and companies so it looks
pretty good for the future from our research and reading. On the conservative side I would
not recommend IDN to anyone who can not wait it out and be patient. For those that do,
the ROI on your investment may be exceptional.