 | 5 years later and still waiting.. come on SEDO lets have a straight answer
It’s hard not to notice the IDN sales keep creeping in at DNjournal each week, some of them reaching dizzy heights in the 6 figures.. but there’s a pattern, have you spotted it? – it’s usually a German language domain, and it’s almost always sold via Sedo.
So what does this tell us?
| IDN demystified - Monday, February 8, 2010 - 19:4 |
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| The Truth.. about Monetizing IDNs
Continuing the Mythbusting series from here.
Monetizing an IDN if you are not familiar with the language & culture can be an obstacle, but it doesn’t have to be.
If full scale development is your goal, then partnering with an existing business in that country makes a lot of sense.. you provide the name & traffic,
| IDN demystified - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 9:40 |
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| Unmasking… the “Snow’s”
This blog didn’t set out to be a daily blog like so many other blogs out there in blogville. The posting may be infrequent, but in terms of delivering the goods, I aim to satisfy, and always true to the spirit of demystifying the world of IDN.
This is hopefully the first of a few articles
| IDN demystified - Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 16:5 |
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| The Perfect Punycode Converter? We think so.
It’s not often you get a free lunch, usually there’s a catch. But not with this.
Ever since I acquired IDNTools, there’s been a ton of things I wanted to do with it – relocate it to a fast server, give it a new skin, improve the toolset (particularly the IDN droplist)..
| IDN demystified - Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 16:50 |
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| The Truth.. about language skills
IDNs? Nah not for me, I wouldn’t even know how to type one..
Continuing the Mythbusting series from here..
I’ve lost count how many times I have heard folks say that they can’t get in to IDN because they don’t know the language
| IDN demystified - Monday, November 16, 2009 - 16:55 |
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| The Truth.. about CPC
IDNs are worthless, the traffic is worthless.
Continuing the Mythbusting series from here..
One of the most common myths I hear is that international traffic is worthless, or at least not worth chasing.
While it’s true that many factors come into play to determine value, it certainly isn’t true that ALL international traffic ...
| IDN demystified - Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 17:5 |
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| The Truth.. about CPC
IDNs are worthless, the traffic is worthless.
Continuing the Mythbusting series from here..
One of the most common myths I hear is that international traffic is worthless, or at least not worth chasing.
While it’s true that many factors come into play to determine value, it certainly isn’t true that ALL international tra....
| IDN demystified - Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 16:5 |
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| The Truth about Traffic
I know people who are making $xxx a month parking a single IDN. And it won’t surprise you to hear that the type of quality needed to bring in that kind of traffic is exceptional.
Whether you subscribe to the IDN business case or not, it is kind of irrelevant – because there seems to be...
| IDN demystified - Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 16:57 |
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| Portfolio Management and Security 101
Not a week goes by when there isn’t a story about a domain theft, it’s becoming an all too familiar sight, and just this week a colleague of mine lost many domains, some ascii, some IDN.
While it was this act that prompted me to write this blog post, I will refrain from going into detail
| IDN demystified - Friday, August 14, 2009 - 18:52 |
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| Portfolio Management and Security 101
Not a week goes by when there isn’t a story about a domain theft, it’s becoming an all too familiar sight, and just this week a colleague of mine lost many domains, some ascii, some IDN...
| IDN demystified - Friday, August 14, 2009 - 18:52 |
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| IDN .jp drop catching?
I have been drop catching IDN .Jps for over 3 years now, and have amassed some awesome domains.
Drop catching in .jp has received very little coverage, but actually all the information is out there in the public domain.
Like all ccTLDs, there is no zone file, but I have a private database containing tens of thousands..
| IDN demystified - Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 7:40 |
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| IDN .jp drop catching?
I have been drop catching IDN .jp’s for over 3 years now, and have amassed some awesome domains.
Drop catching in .jp has received very little coverage, but actually all the information is out there in the public domain.
Like all ccTLD’s there is no zone file, but I have a private database containing ten’s of thousa...
| IDN demystified - Saturday, August 1, 2009 - 7:40 |
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| IDN Validation & Renewals 1/2
It’s been almost a month since I last wrote anything here. I’d like to say I’ve busy doing non-domain things, but alas… I’ve been thinking about renewals; which brings me nicely onto this post topic...
| IDN demystified - Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 10:27 |
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| Japan Deep-dive
Japanese language domains make up the bulk of my IDN portfolio, and there’s a very good reason why this is, but before we get into that, lets take a quick look at the country itself.
Japanese Language Domains
It’s no coincidence Japanese domains are one of the favourites amongst domainers, with Japan having the second l...
| IDN demystified - Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:19 |
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| Japan Deep-dive
Japanese language domains make up the bulk of my IDN portfolio, and there’s a very good reason why this is, but before we get into that, lets take a quick look at the country itself.
Japanese Language Domains
It’s no coincidence Japanese domains are one of the favourites amongst domainers, with Japan having the second l...
| IDN demystified - Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:19 |
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| Japan Deep-dive
Japanese language domains make up the bulk of my IDN portfolio, and there’s a very good reason why this is, but before we get into that, lets take a quick look at the country itself...
| IDN demystified - Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:19 |
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| Russia Deep-Dive 2/2: Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand reasons why this makes sense
As I mentioned on my Agenda post, I’ve been involved with a number of un-reported big ticket IDN deals over the last few years.
Sometimes my involvement is simply as a “second opinion” from a prospective buyer before purchasing; sometimes I’ve found that people just tell me stuff for the heck of it – I guess
| IDN demystified - Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 0:0 |
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| Russia Deep-Dive 1/2
I like Russian domains, in fact I wish I had more. My portfolio of Cyrillic (link) domains in terms of numbers is rather modest, in fact the smallest of all the languages I hold...
| IDN demystified - Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 19:1 |
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| Russia Deep-Dive 1/2
I like Russian domains, in fact I wish I had more. My portfolio of Cyrillic (link) domains in terms of numbers is rather modest, in fact the smallest of all the languages I hold.
Deep-Dives
If you have read Chapters 2-3 already, then you will appreciate that we have already laid out a watertight case for
| IDN demystified - Sunday, May 24, 2009 - 18:1 |
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| Chapter 3/3: ICANN. Fail
On May 25th 1961 before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech expressing his goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960’s.
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and...
| IDN demystified - Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 18:30 |
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