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Originally Posted by vanion
so basically there are few idns with any type ins and everyone's just speculating?
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The type-ins others are talking about are latin IDNs, cyrilics-languages, and maybe arabic. In Japan, there are no real type-ins worth talking about yet. Remember Japanese up to this point had only ascii domains to deal with - which mostly they cannot remember nor can they type. They are not accustomed to typing in yet. For that to happen, all the common internet destinations need to switch over to IDN and start advertising. That will take a little while, though it is starting to happen.
So to Olney's point, no one is going to sell you a premium Japanese IDN for current type-in traffic x a multiple. You can call it speculation but at this point, most of us comprehend the probable value of the terms we are sitting on.