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Originally Posted by acesfull  I think DNAME may still be the final solution, and for now they are just doing a painfully drawn out political dog-and-pony show. I have no idea of the percentage of IE7 users in Japan and China - but I can't imagine it will be too much longer before they get up to speed. Once that is done, and once we really know the "official" status of IDN.IDN/IDN.com, that should be the point when the value of these names can really begin to be realized. |
Read some posts and dialogue with Tina Dam who is in charge of the IDN program for ICANN. She indicated that the proposal for DNAME will probably not be implemented in the fashion proposed by Verisign. She did say that some other forms of "Aliasing" are more likely to be the final solution.
Aliasing will probably be the solution for Arabic, Hebrew etc. the "Right to Left" alphabets. They may be the first to take the full idn.idn plunge soon. My guess is that the RTL idn.com will have to be aliased to fit the language or they will have to flip it leftside of the term as .moc
or (moc.)
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Originally Posted by namelayer Yeah, that .cn didnt do squat for me so I let it go. I am just getting into the IDN market and still getting a feel for everything and trying to find out which is the best way to go. I have yet to find a .com that gets even a couple typins a day. I am not done though, I am regging about 20/30 a day untill I find a couple of good traffic ones.
If I could just find out what traditional way is the most popular way the chinese/japanese type it would make it much easier. |
I don't think you are going to find too many except adult names that get more than a few hits each day. Things should start to pop once IE7 gets mainstream in 2008, and IDNs start appearing in advertising etc.
Sure might be worth holding good generics, geo domains, and dictionary words for a 2-3 year period and see what happens.