this is way Japanese learn to use IDNs

[seamo]

I have held this opinion since I first dived into IDN's, and I still believe that extension biases will be shaken with Local IDN uptake.

.com will of course always carry a premium, but the realization that you are able to reg anything in your native tounge will buoy the market in all extensions...at least until the Local IDN honeymoon is over.

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I think unlike the other contenders Dot Net has already been fairly heavily hammered.

Agreed - a lot of Japanese .net harvesting occured 12 months ago.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by seamo

I have held this opinion since I first dived into IDN's, and I still believe that extension biases will be shaken with Local IDN uptake.

.com will of course always carry a premium, but the realization that you are able to reg anything in your native tounge will buoy the market in all extensions...at least until the Local IDN honeymoon is over.

You make it sound as though IDN are a passing fad.

IDN is what is going to make the Internet Functional in Asia. Until now it has been unable to develop and grow as it did in the US and most of it is due to a disfunctional navigation system.

I am not convinced that much of the prevarication has not been deliberate with the intention of hamstringing the opposition. However, once the Nations of Asia start to assert themselves the genie will be out the box for good. There is no way it is going back inside.

The only possible parallels that you could draw with a honeymoon, is that is going to the being of something that is profound and deeply enduring, something most modern marriages unfortunately are not.

[seamo]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

You make it sound as though IDN are a passing fad.

The only possible parallels that you could draw with a honeymoon, is that is going to the being of something that is profound and deeply enduring, something most modern marriages unfortunately are not.

My mistake - this wasn't my intention.

My alluding to a 'honeymoon period' for IDN's is in reference to the mob frenzy that seems to mark the ebb and flow of the domain market in general.

When IDN's explode locally, my guess is that generics and geographics in all extensions will command very good prices as the local end-user looks to get a piece of the action.

After some point though - the 'end of the honeymoon'- the market may well correct itself and values of various extensions come more in line with the ascii market.

Just a guess, and I'm the first to admit not from a particularly well-educated domainer

[sunsei21]

Originally Posted by IDNCowboy

well we want them to buy the .com cause thats where our money is . If they buy the .net perhaps they'd buy .biz, .info etc

lol thats funny spoken like a true squatter honestly doesn't matter what they buy if a option is available for reg fee i imagine there is a 97% chance that they will opt for the available one as oppose to buying from a domainer especially for a blog or some other simple reason as oppose to the few and far between end user sales that might happen.

as a side note i heard some where that historically .net is most developed in Asian countries but who knows lol i guess .com is not so important to everyone

[Rubber Duck]

I think you are correct that there will be fad and bubbles along the way. There may be a significant drop in IDN dot com prices at some future point in time, but not that is some time off and won't occur until they have got way out of line with fundamentals, which would probably mean something like a 100 fold increase in value before they retrench.

In Dot WS I fear that the boom may well be over. For alternate extensions it will depend on the degree to which they have Mindshare. In some cases this is likely to be none existent.

It was obvious that dot Net and dot Org had mindshare in China. If you look at the original extension launched under dot CN before the top level ccTLD existed there was already .com.cn, .net.cn and .org.cn. I don't recall a .ws.cn or a .biz.cn!

Originally Posted by seamo

My mistake - this wasn't my intention.

My alluding to a 'honeymoon period' for IDN's is in reference to the mob frenzy that seems to mark the ebb and flow of the domain market in general.

When IDN's explode locally, my guess is that generics and geographics in all extensions will command very good prices as the local end-user looks to get a piece of the action.

After some point though - the 'end of the honeymoon'- the market may well correct itself and values of various extensions come more in line with the ascii market.

Just a guess, and I'm the first to admit not from a particularly well-educated domainer

[tee1]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

In Dot WS I fear that the boom may well be over.

Boom! When did that happen, where was I? I been under the weather for a couple of days and #$@# missed the .ws boom. Jusk kidding RD. ascii.ws hasn't really taken off, but one thought I had was when the IDN wave hits rational thinking may stray for a short time. native end users might go after any extension to get their key words. don't know just a thought.

All I am looking for in my small investment in .ws is someone with more money than sense. They seem to pop up every once in while. I tried to get a few names that would appeal to those type people. A few high quality names that might befuzzle their minds, have them talking about seo and stuff like that, while ignoring the extension.

tee1

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by tee1

A few high quality names that might befuzzle their minds, have them talking about seo and stuff like that, while ignoring the extension.

tee1

And lets not forget just paying for adwords ect.