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Originally Posted by scotty
This is something I'm sure a lot of you have already thought about but I find it strange no one has ever raised a discussion on this topic yet.
In a nutshell, the political and PR implications of it becoming widely known that the prime IDN.com's, .net's etc are already taken by a bunch of non-native carpet-baggers who have no "real" use for the domains except to make money from them - that's the reason ICANN do not publicise that IDN.com's etc already exist, why they don't engage with this forum more and why they'll try to make sure that the IDN.IDN roll-out is well publicized in advance of the domains becoming available (so real businesses etc can get a chance at the domains).
Domains are Internet street addresses for the wider public/business use - that's what ICANN want to happen with IDNs. They're not creating IDNs to make a small group of speculators very rich. They'll do whatever they can do thwart that happening.
Just a though (by one of those speculators!)
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All valid arguments, but what the hell is this IDN.IDN?
Have you thought about it?
Admittedly, i've not done an indepth study on IDN.IDN, but a few points i picked out from my scratchy understanding:
1. IDN.IDN is not suppose to be confusingly similar to IDN.com or IDN.net or IDN.org or IDN.biz....
2. IDN.IDN already exists in China. .gongsi. .zhongguo. So what? LOL.
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Originally Posted by bwhhisc
At $6.99 a year for .com (domainsite), and $ 5.75 per year for .net (dynadot), your 400 domains
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oh! how did you get this rate? i'm pissed off when moniker raised their rates. I'm moving.