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Originally Posted by idnceo
I know im a hardcore believer of .jp but i worry i can be wrong, so here is what im doing...lately I have been trying to check many websites to see which ones are using IDNs and at the same time to see which companies registered idn.com and idn.jp , so we can venture to guess a little which ones we will be seeing in the years to come.
What i see is again many companies took idn.jp , leaving the .com free to be taken, why? i dont know but i already check more than 100 big companies doing this. My guess again in a few years we will be seeing these famous companies using IDN.jp , because they got more money to invest on publicity of their IDN.jp url ; or i dont know if they were short-sighted and they will now have to buy the .com from the guys who took them, who knows...
Im not gonna give now many examples because many .com of famous japanese companies are taken by several members. But im gonna use at least these ones, i double checked the whois to verify wasnt taken by a member. If u own the .com of these companies, im sorry, i didnt mean anything. but really many guys took so many japanese companies, amazing...  |
This is good work idnceo. I too have been surprised at the number of japanese companies who have acquired and are already using their .jp. Olney is right in that both have a chance but I think that the momentum out of the gate will overwhelmingly be .jp because the corporate money will be spent here and same for JPRS spending money to promote .jp.
I think that .com will continue to be used and important but I think it is difficult to overcome all the corporate IDN .jp that will be available when IE 7 is released. Japanese will associate .jp with their internet experience more and more and it will become the default for most things.
If readers think I must be biased because I am mostly invested in .jp think again. I have far more .com and .net than .jp due to the cost differential. Although quality of words is higher in my .jp portfolio I would say.