IDN's dropping like flies

[bwhhisc]

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[dn-101]

Miss Idn is getting married to Rubber Dick

A well-known beauty Ms Idn is getting married to her old boyfriend, Rubber Dick :smilewinkgrin:

http://whatname.com/idn.jpg

 

[Gerry]

Oh man, I remember that thread from another site/forum. It was absolutely brutal with many people thinking the whole thing was staged.

 

[dn-101]

All I wanted to do is to mention Ms Idn beauty:
http://whatname.com/idn.jpg

:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Gerry]

All I wanted to do is to mention Ms Idn beauty:

You have no idea of the real source? It had been perhaps 3 or 4 years ago. It comes from another forum. It was absolutely hilarious...and pitiful. Someone (perhaps the real dude) posted countless pictures and love stories of the two dating, their courtship, the engagement, the wedding and yes...the honeymoon.

But I can not remember where the thread was.

The comments were absolutely brutal and to the point of being almost inhumane (if that is a proper term for it).

I rank that up there with the funniest (and longest) forum threads I have ever seen. It may have been sent to me from one of my military buddies who found it on a gun forum.

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Oh crap! I found the forum thread

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f95/i-got-married-last-weekend-pics-877461/

 

[bwhhisc]

Speaking of idns.....the Russian registry relased idn.рф about 2 weeks ago and just passed 600,000 IDNs registered.

 

[dn-101]

Oh boy, IDNs are really dropping.
Jose, Bills competitor ( http://dnlocal.com ) and a better man just relesead a series of statistics that show mass drops in .com & net.

http://joseaugusto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IDNDropsStats.png

This table doesn't include other tlds and ccTlds, which may more than quadruple those numbers.

If this trend continues there will be no IDN in 5 years!

:smilewinkgrin:

 

[jaugusto]

Hello. Thanks for posting my blog link but... I don't see a massive downwards trend.

For instance, during September & October 2010 there were fewer drops than any prior month.

 

[dn-101]

The biggest drop that's not even mentioned here is in in one Chinese tld: .cn
From the high of 14 mil registrations it went down to 7 mil in just 1 year. :-#:

 

[bwhhisc]

Those were not IDN, but mostly english.cn. Not sure if you remember but you could register them at one point for under $1 and some took the bait, but did not go for the "rack rate renewal when that came around.

I would expect idn.cn to drop as well based on the erratic behavior of the Chinese government "taking" domains that they don't like, or restricting use etc. Also the $35 a year registration fees are high considering the ris, even if you get the different variants of simplified and traditonal characters.

There is more activity than you might imagine but most IDN sales happening mostly under the radar....I sense that most are low to mid xxx sales range but nonetheless this is stuff people handregged in the last 3-4 years so a nice ROI.

DNJournal reports of a $10,000 sale of a Hindi idn: कैसीनो.com ....said to be the first 5 figure sale of a Hindi IDN.

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2011/dailyposts/20110408.htm

QUOTE: This week I learned that the first known five-figure sale of a Hindi IDN domain name was made late last year, however seller Steve Clarke just now got clearance to release the details. He got $10,000 for कैसीनो.com (puny code: xn--11b2b6b6a0bv.com) - which means "casino" in Hindi script. END QUOTE

 

[Gerry]

Not sure if you remember but you could register them at one point for under $1 ...

13 cents to be exact. And no, I did not register any. It was a push by China to have the most registered names of any extension in the world. Yup, they won.

 

[Sarcle]

Those were not IDN, but mostly english.cn. Not sure if you remember but you could register them at one point for under $1 and some took the bait, but did not go for the "rack rate renewal when that came around.

Yeah, but why let facts get in the way of this Ascii circlejerk?