Don't tell people to buy IDNs which has almost no value and hardly any one will pay for IDN traffic in case they get some.
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It not unusual to get clicks from Japan worth several dollars. Google pay Namedrive, they pay us. No, great mystery.
Acroplex is right, IDN is a non-sense. Café.com is not cafe.com, but are you able to write �*, ü, Ã, ž ? No, and that is exactly why it cannot work. If any German, French or Polish company wants to be global, its domain name won't be IDN...
You have proved nothing and impressed no one. Inform comment is much more effective. If people can type what the same terms the search into the address bar and it resolves of course it works. Overture scores are the key benchmark of domaining. The Overture tells us that everyone searches in their only language. The only reason that nobody searche is that Microsoft have single handedly deprived half the World of that capability for several years through abuse of a dominant position in the browser market. That will be resolve when either IE7 replaces IE6 or equally when FF or Opera do.
I am not anti-idn. If it suceeds that is good for many idn domainers.
The main reason I have no idn's is simply because it is very tough to make money on the-web even if you are in an English speaking nation and only using standard ascii domains so it would seem to be immensely more difficult to achieve success with a foreign language, especially if that language is not native.
The difference is quality. I have domains in my portfolio whose English equivalents would fetch millions of dollars each.
From the amount of F$ Acroplex has it seems that he is a fulltime forum poster.
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Acroplex is really registering IDNs. He posted in this thread today.
http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=188985 He tried out the new DNF IDN tool. He doesn't want anyone else to register Greek domains so he can have them all for himself.
Forget it, you'll never convince Acroplex on IDN. I had arguments with him two years ago. He has had the information available for ages, just does chose to believe it. Even if you show him your pay cheques when they roll in, I doubt whether it will make a difference.
