How to know if the available IDN.com is actuallly reserved or blocked?

[duskdawn]

Hi guys,
I checked several Chinese keywords at domainsite and many of them is available in .coms.
However I heard many keywords in IDN.com are actually reserved so my question is how to find it out before making a hassle purchase and get refund credit later on?

 

[NameYourself]

There is no way to know until the time of registration. Just checkout like usual and see which ones go through. Expect to only get half of them, the lesser quality half that is.

 

[NameAlot.com]

My advise would be to use domainsite because you get your money back and not in the form of a credit. But generally if its a very popular keyword like "map", if it shows the .net is taken but the .com is available, then 95% of the time, its taken in some other language or reserved. But there are alot of gems still out there though. Good luck!

 

[duskdawn]

Thanks, I found a way by using dynadot.com, they suggested "probably unavailabe" and provide the date of the last failed reg attempt.

 

[NameYourself]

Thanks, I found a way by using dynadot.com, they suggested "probably unavailabe" and provide the date of the last failed reg attempt.

This is a good tool only for single registrations, and I believe it only shows that if someone else has tried to register that domain at DynaDot.

 

[italiandragon]

it happened to me the first time I tried to reg an IDN...

in Chinese, travel.com was free.....but the variant was taken.....too nice to be true, now I got a credit with Dynadot.