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Originally Posted by Ryu
Without enough browser support, most companies and bloggers wouldn't start advertising their IDNs seriously... Neither would they switch from ascii to IDNs as their main web addresses...
I don't think it's a cultural thing (search behavior). It's just a matter of how many IDNs are out there... being used by webmasters... For example, I am very well aware of IDNs, but I seldom type-in because I know chances are that there'd be no site. On the other hand, I have tried typing in a number of ascii names even before i became interested in domaining... I remember testing various English domain names with my Japanese friends during my school days... We would have tried IDNs, too, if they were around...
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Well, I surely don't have anything to back this up, but I'm willing to bet that there are way less Russian IDN developed sites than Japanese(not minisites from domain investors - 100% commercial ones).
How then do you account for the Russian traffic if not for different search behavior?