Traffic from North America

[Explorer]

I usually don't pay any attention on North American traffic since I assume it comes from fellow IDNers who are trying to figure out if the domain names are available. But recently I noticed that the click-through rate for North America is not that insignificant - above 5%. I think our fellow IDNers are too busy regging to click on links on NameDrive, so it's not coming from them. Is it possible NameDrive might be making a mistake on geo-traffic identification?

[bramiozo]

Sure, that's possible if not all ip-ranges are covered, maybe namedrive assumes traffic to come from north-america when an ip doesn't fall in any of the ip-ranges ?
This is not far fetched if you assume most of the traffic comes from non-western regions where it is likely not all ip-ranges are inventoried.

[Drewbert]

You don't think there's people in North America more comfortable browsing in languages other than English?

[bramiozo]

It's not likely that the bulk of the idn traffic comes from the region which is most skeptical to it's implementation.