It was due mainly to the launch of Chinese IDNs. The registration spike was not sustained and new registration volume fell back to normal.Now in Novemeber there was a huge pop of 11% in numbers for Mobi registrations. Registrations would be a negative percentage actually if that pop didn't occur. Are these fudged numbers by mTLD or did someone go ape tasting mobi names?
Okay, but the title of this thread is the collaspe of the IDN and .mobi market.
That hardly seems to be the case in either of these situations.
Do you think one or two people created the need and petitioned ICANN for IDN?
Or perhaps it may have been the nearly 2 billion Chinese and nearly 1.5 million of India?
How can something collapse without a launch?
As for personal portfolios or wealth collapsing, god forbid that someone would put their entire faith in one sector or particular speculation of this market. The entire market is speculative in its very nature but hardly wise to bet it all on a one-horse race.
And if someone owns å¥.com right now, why would apple have the rights to it when the .com will be mirrored to represent all Japanese script.
The point I was trying to make is Apple DOES NOT own or have rights to every single word spelling or script to the word a-p-p-l-e, not to mention the 1600 varieties of apples in the world.The Japanese
Um, I understand IDN, which is what the thread is about. I was using an example of how (the meaning, spelling, etc) of Apple in one language will not give the IDN of Apple in every language to that holder of (apple).com or (apple).net.The point is, the character you used as an example doesn't mean apple in Japanese, so you shouldn't chime in on what you obviously don't understand.
As for chiming in, 18 pages later you find something to say? As if this thread was entirely about apple?The point is, the character you used as an example doesn't mean apple in Japanese, so you shouldn't chime in on what you obviously don't understand.
Aw,...you went back nearly an hour after the original post and edited your comments.å¥ means 'how can one help' in Chinese, and doesn't mean anything in standard Japanese.
contact the folks of Japanese Kanji Dictionary and inform them that they are wrong.
å¥ - a wild apple
æª - an apple
Aw,...you went back nearly an hour after the original post and edited your comments..
Again, take it up with the good folks at Japanese Kanji Dictionary online.Neither of those characters are used for 'apple' in standard Japanese or Chinese.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/å¥
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/æª
After reading your reply, I realized you weren't capable of reading the Japanese dictionary entries I posted first, so I re-edited my post to make it perfectly clear to you in plain English.
Once again, å¥ does not mean apple in Japanese.
Again, take it up with the good folks at Japanese Kanji Dictionary online.
And, once again, this thread is not about apple or interpretations of apple. I used that name/word as an illustration.
You find this entire thread about apple, trademarks, Japan, and apple trademarks in japan?since one of them is used by Apple as a trademark in Japan, and the others are not.
If only those poor noobs on Namepros that maxed out their credit cards buying mobees had taken my advice. The mobee marketplace used to have top billing on Namepros. Now I can't even find a mobee section anywhere on the site.
mobee market parallels the tulip market from the 16th century and later the beanie baby market.