Yes, but only on the TLD. You will only get one keyword in a single script at the second level. However, there is possibility that you might get the Traditional/Simplfied equivalents in Chinese at a...

Only if you are still using IE6, in which case they still are!:lol:

If you live in the US, you will need to go back to Watergate to find evidence of Investigative Journalism. :lol:

So you think IDN.de is new launch?

Do you actually know anything about this industry that you didn't read in the Beano?

You will no doubt be looking forward to next weeks report to get the Lowdown on Sedo's IDN.eu auction which included quite a few five figures sales, and the totally sales inventory ran into...

As I predicted sometime ago, everything is being dictated by existing laws on Trademarks and Intellectual Property. ICANN has no remit to give away that which legally belongs to others. And in this...

How about posting some results? Seemed to be quite a success.

If you wait until all the knowables are know then as a speculation, you will be too late. This is not the model followed by Schwartz and other key players in the Domain Industry. They got in and used...

When is hardly important.

As soon as what Chuck Gomes is saying is confirmed, large corporations will start buying and branding on IDN.com. Dual branding with IDN.IDNcom will then follow later....

You could but you would need to be a bit of dumb arse.

It should have no impact at all. The generally Chinese (or indeed most of the rest of the affected language groups) wouldn't ever have surfed the Internet in English, and this will not change that....

ICANN won't allow this. Apart from causing confusion which they will not allow it will have serve implications for stability. Such issues would take another decade to resolve. If it is going to...

No Apple will not be entitled to everything that conveys the image of a piece of fruit. If they did not own Apple.com, they would not be entitled to it because it is generic. They are of course...

It the " You lick mine and I lick yours" Award.

Well, maybe but you cannot blame ICANN for that. Its Governments, bless 'em! But if that's what they want then that is what they will get. More power to IDN.com! But they will spend big budget on...

Nothing like half a story. You really are some joker. Yes, a company was formed. Yes, it is true there is little traffic, but the net cash-flow has been out. I agree to date, however, it has not...

Actually, I can trace my roots back to Ireland as well and I have nothing against the Irish, but when you are talking about developments in the World, Ireland is never going to be deserving of much...

Hmmm...

Read the Policy:

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/idn-cctld-implementation-plan-30sep09-en.pdf

3.3 Meaningfulness Requirement
The IDN ccTLD string(s) must be a...

No, but I personally avoid buying anything from the US because I know that indirectly I am support evil little sods like you. Unless, your marketing techniques increasing resort to physically...

This is precisely the kind of imperialistic condescension that made an event like 9/11 almost inevitable. No amount of nuclear armaments is going to protect the US from its own stupidity.

I don't know how in your twisted mind you ever though people who understand no Chinese were going to be able to read Chinese sites. Surely the language of the URL is but a minor impediment, or do you...

Yes, but not an unplausible scenario, if the matter was raised in a national paper as to why the MPs have sole access to our TLD, and it was spiced up with a few quotes about Duck Moats, then I can...

The vast expansion in .cn was in ASCII which were sold as give away prices largely to Americans that think the Chinese speak English. These are now dropping very quickly now. Of course Americans also...

Yes, and that is dot Mobi, which doesn't even rank in most people's estimation as they are a complete newcomer.



Yes, and as a sleeping Giant India ranks 4th with a User Penetration of just 7%...

Yes, I am sure you both have a deep interest in the place, and I was being a flippant but the basic problem is:

Ireland Pop 4,203,200 Users 2,830,100 Penetrat'n 67.3% Growth 261.0 %

Asia Pop...

No but if you have ever tried contacting them it soon becomes obvious they are still using something provided by their ISP.

Frankly, you are missing the point to some degree here. The total numbers of registrations is not the only metric that matters. The key is the level of traction that these domains have with the...

To make sense of any Domain debate, first you have to establish who the dumb arsed contributors are. Often tricky for a newcomer, but if you put Acrow at the top of your list then you will be headed...

Perhaps, but then I am narrow minded enough to hold most of IDN portfolios in the dot Com extension. Dot Com is a global brand. Yes, it does have local competition from ccTLD but their market do not...

Sorry, but I find you analysis naive and superficial. Yes, ccTLD is strong in the UK, but what has happened is that smaller enterprises which want generic TLDs have tended to go that way because the...

As you stated it is an opinion and as such not only not corroborated by the facts but often actually in stark contrast to them.

You should not believe all you read, most journalists don't even get out of the office these days. You moan about their their awful English but you expect them to use as a primary source of...

Yes, but obviously they need different content for different markets. It is no good expecting all Chinese to read English, just as it would be silly to expect all Americans to understand Chinese....

Naive was not what sprung to mind.

Yes, funny I was catching up on the boxing scene today. Is right the US doesn't even have a viable heavy weight contender these days?

What they have achieved is accepting credit for hard work done by others whilst they were procrastinating and picking their butts.

Actually, I think you will find that ICANN makes most of its money on its gTLD tax of about 50 cents a name. It makes very little from ccTLDs, IDN or otherwise. Verisign pays the piper.



Well...

Yes, we can tell from your signature that you are pretty clueless on Trademark Law.

Well, I think we all understand why he is Fearless!

Maybe, but ultimately the only thing that counts is being first.

No, Joe Arab will just register and use names just as you do, but he will use and Arabic interface and the names will be in an Arabic script. He shouldn't be anymore confused than your average...

This is simply not true and it would be largely pointless. In most of these place you don't even have a brand to protect in the local character sets. If dot com is aliased in 135 languages a...

They won't have to. If thing go to plan then they will find it as intuitive to them as you find English dot com intuitive to you. The system has been designed with the end user in mind. It is just we...

Google is probably the most useful tool ultimately. Just like English Keywords other script keywords get lots of result if the mean anything.

But how about just making things simple for yourself...

Yes, just so much easier to go out and learn Klingon or something. You guys are priceless!

What being trolled by a raving nutter?

But, then again, wasn't that where all this started?



But as they say Buy Low and Sell High. Current valuations are no guarantee of future...

You can take it from me that ICANN will take little or no notice of what any domainer says or does. But what they say and do has a huge impact, especially when they very occasionally start responding...

Are you sure SIMPLICITY is not those who have managed to convince themselves that the rest of the World speaks English.

Most IDN are dot Coms and always will be.

May be but did he tell you who gets to own the دوت.دوت?

The answer to that is effectively already in the policy, but nobody is yet spelling it out clearly.

دوت.com will not be useless even if...

Dot Com is about to morph into a variety of different forms. They won't look like dot com but they will walk and talk like dot coms and they will resolve to the dot com registry, just not quite yet....