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Originally Posted by ilovedomains
Hi
I was in a fairly well know webmasters chat room recently and i was amazed at the response to idn's
So i went in there and asked for some appraisals of some idn domains which have sold $20k-$60k (They didnt know this at the time)
The response made me laugh, Here are some of the responses
"Nobody is interested mate"
"I give you $2 dollars"
" Why would we want them"
" No value you at all "
Etc you get the drift,
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They were being nice to you....if this was 2005 they probably would ban you from the forum. By 2006 they had labeled IDNers "Moonies".
If you feel like putting up some facts, you can reference idntools.com where there are hundreds of stats on IDN sales reports. Or even the fact that ICANN has $14,000,000 in their 2009 budget for IDN rollout (that number does not include the money each countries registrars will spend so figure the total to be more in the neighborhood of $100,000,000).
Most just have never bothered to take any time to read up and frankly just plain don't care . It is hard to change most domainers views as we have all found out over the last 3 years. Don't worry...you can enjoy the many many years they will have to kick themselves in the rear end once thing play out like we expect, and they realize they missed the opportunity of a lifetime (the second time around). In reality, IDNs are where ascii domains were in 1997....only this time around we have all that knowledge and have applied our predictions and speculations towards what we see happening with foreign language domains as they follow a bit of a parrallel course. My guess is it won't take another 10 years this time round.
