Create Your Account  |  Log in  |  Contact Latest News 2011 IDN Sales Summary: Sales Chart As a recap of the biggest sales year for IDNs yet, below we review the top reported IDN sales in 2011. A snapshot of some of the largest confirmed sales, courtesy of IDNTools Sales Charts, are as follows: Notable, is that even in this emerging IDN market, these top 10 public sales grossed over $100,000. IDNBlog.com - Monday, January 16, 2012 - 15:5 Exclusive Q&A with Tina Dam Q: You are currently a co-founder of myTLD.com, a consulting and management firm for new TLDs. What services do you offer and what types of clients do you work with? A: At MyTLD we provide a wide range of services, from general domain advice; gTLD application writing, strategy, processing, and launch to companies, organizations, or IDNBlog.com - Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 23:3 Exclusive Q&A with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines Q: You are CEO of Top Level Domain Holdings, CEO and founder of Minds + Machines, CEO of dotNYC, and Principal of Names@Work. Are there any other companies or organizations that you are currently a part of, which I failed to mention? A: That’s about it, although I also act as an advisor to DomainsBot, IDNBlog.com - Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 23:8 Foreigners Are Now Allowed to Register Russian IDN.?? Domain Names The .РФ ccTLD has quickly become a juggernaut with over 900,000 domains registered during its first year. Now .РФ is officially open to non-Russian registrants. Below please find the official press release issued today, which also includes some interesting stats: Starting on November 11 foreigners are allowed to register domain names... IDNBlog.com - Monday, November 14, 2011 - 23:25 The Biggest Threat to IDN.IDN gTLDs I first learned about it by reading a Forbes article making the rounds (here) at the end of September. Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Advertisers (“ANA”) authored the article, which is entitled “How to (Unnecessarily) Encumber The Internet And The Economy” and argued that the new... IDNBlog.com - Monday, November 14, 2011 - 1:7 IDNBlog’s 3rd Year: Here Are Our Traffic Stats As IDNBlog has recently entered into its 3rd year, we’ve had our share of breaking news and great interviews (Schwartz, Schilling, Wrixon, Dam and Gomes), auctions, newsletters, and events, but I am proudest of our diverse reader-base. Below, is a snapshot of where our traffic comes from in order. Though I can’t give traf... IDNBlog.com - Monday, October 31, 2011 - 15:57 Chinese Buyers Prefer Numbers to English Domains, Why That Is and Why IDNs are Next Chinese buyers bought a series of high-priced numeric domains in the last few months including 55.com for $2.3 million, 33.com for $358,000 and 11.com for $525,000. A nice recap of these sales and of the central brokering role played by 4.cn can be found here at DomainShane. Chinese businesses have historically been pushed to go IDNBlog.com - Saturday, October 29, 2011 - 1:22 ICANN 42 in Dakar: IDNs and Timing of New gTLDs in Play ICANN President and CEO, Rod Beckstom, launched the ICANN 42 meeting in Dakar, Sengal, with a rousing address that included ICANN’s hope that IDNs will expand the base of users on the Internet. Beckstrom stated: “We can also bring more voices and more people to the Internet through Internationalized Domain Names. IDNs mak... IDNBlog.com - Friday, October 28, 2011 - 1:16 What is the Real Purpose of New gTLDs? Allowing For Fully Internationalized Domains Will the majority of the estimated 4,000 new gTLD applications even be in English? The Gulf News and other leading international news outlets have issued breathless reports about the potential of IDN gTLDs. In a recent interview Rod Beckstrom, outgoing ICANN CEO, stated that he was “surprised to hear that ICANN may see as many IDNBlog.com - Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 17:43 Multilingual Startup Lands $5.25 Million Given the surge in multilingual website development, it is no surprise that an online service that connects freelance translators to customers is growing rapidly. myGengo, billed as an oDesk for those in need of translation, has been featured on TechCrunch and GigaOm this past week. Atomico, a London-based venture capital firm and ex... IDNBlog.com - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 23:43 Multilingual Startup Lands $5.25 Million Given the surge in multilingual website development, it is no surprise that an online service that connects freelance translators to customers is growing rapidly. myGengo, billed as an oDesk for those in need of translation, has been featured on TechCrunch and GigaOm this past week. Atomico, a London-based venture capital firm and ex... IDNBlog.com - Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 19:55 IDN Tools: Adapt or Die IDNTools is changing once again. We are winding up our droplist service given that Google has tightened its Google Adwords Keyword API usage terms, and we can no longer use it to rank dropping names in our droplist. We are instead working on another IDNTools service that we believe will add equal if not greater IDNBlog.com - Sunday, September 25, 2011 - 12:17 Extreme Sports Competition Uses IDN, ?????.org, to Promote Event For sports fans, the site ?????.org (“Battle” in Russian), should hold your interest. The organizers of an extreme sports competition, the multisport marathon, launched the site in August. In addition, the event has been heavily promoted on Russian television and the associated commercial prominently showcases the IDN: Th... IDNBlog.com - Sunday, September 11, 2011 - 2:57 Rod Beckstrom and Tina Dam Leave, What Will Replacements Bring? In January, Tina Dam announced her resignation from the post of Senior Director of IDNs at ICANN. Then, just this past week ICANN CEO, Rod Beckstrom suddenly announced his retirement with no replacement in sight. This past year there were huge strides in the IDN ccTLD program, highlighted by the successful launch of Russia’s .?... IDNBlog.com - Monday, August 22, 2011 - 22:6 Google Goes All-In for IDNs A critical tool in developing site traffic is Google Adwords. In short, it is a great way to place targeted ads for cheap. The problem has always been that Adwords was not fully IDN compatible. Instead of being able to post an IDN that you are advertising, such as ????.??, you previously had to use IDNBlog.com - Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 21:29 Pat Kane Interview: Expect Full .COM IDN Equivalents in Japanese, Hangul, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arab... Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Verisign Naming Services, and Andrew Alleman of Domain Name Wire recently discussed new IDNs in an article here. Notably, the article pronounces that with regards to full IDN .com aliasing “you can expect .com equivalents in Japanese, Hangul, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic, and ... IDNBlog.com - Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 3:42 A Worthy Footnote: ICANN’s Vote Opens the Door for Fully Multilingual gTLD Domains ICANN’s vote today approved new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), which may be applied for in any language. This vote not only paves the way for new domains like .Coke, .FedEx and .Target, but more significantly opens the door for internationalized domain names (IDNs) such as .???, .??? and .?????. As a direct result IDNBlog.com - Monday, June 20, 2011 - 20:40 A Worthy Footnote: ICANN’s Vote Opens the Door for Fully Multilingual gTLD Domains ICANN’s vote today approved new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), which may be applied for in any language. This vote not only paves the way for new domains like .Coke, .FedEx and .Target, but more significantly opens the door for internationalized domain names (IDNs) such as .???, .??? and .?????. As a direct result IDNBlog.com - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 20:40 IDN 101: Here Are The Basics 1. Punycode. A domain like “xn--c1ajz8b.xn--p1ai” reads like gibberish, but it is just an alternative representation for an IDN, ????.??. Use a punycode converter to translate punycode into a native language and vice-versa. Every IDN has a punycode equivalent. The value of an IDN clearly comes from the brandable, typable ... IDNBlog.com - Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 22:24 IDN 101: Here Are The Basics 1. Punycode. A domain like “xn--c1ajz8b.xn--p1ai” reads like gibberish, but it is just an alternative representation for an IDN, ????.??. Use a punycode converter to translate punycode into a native language and vice-versa. Every IDN has a punycode equivalent. The value of an IDN clearly comes from the brandable, typable ... 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