Caught me by surprise!

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

How does your thought process take you from A to B in this case? Really, I am simply interested in how you determine this indicator with logic.

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It just stands to reason from my perspective if they are building Bots to trail through IDN they must have some interest in these domains. What possible interest could they have other than either purchasing them or providing services that would facilitate such purchases?

[yanni]

I believe he means that since there is increased interest in IDN from day to day, the big swell is getting closer.

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

It just stands to reason from my perspective if they are building Bots to trail through IDN they must have some interest in these domains. What possible interest could they have other than either purchasing them or providing services that would facilitate such purchases?

I don't think that they built any bots to trail through IDN, they simply IDN enabled their front-end reporting tools and subsequently told their bots to start tracking xn-- domains which they couldn't handle before.

Other possible interests could include making up for an increasing loss of data for their traditional business - that of selling domain information. Purchasers of this information won't want to buy a report full of xn-- domains, they will also want to see the Unicode characters and translations.

For those of you US residents holding IDNs like taliban, jihad, terrorism, etc. IMO now is the time to start to reconsider your investment decisions. Homeland security will not be amused and will not want to hear that these are benign domains meant for PPC or resale. Yes, you can be assured that Homeland security is a customer of organizations such as domaintools.

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[sarcle]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

For those of you US residents holding IDNs like taliban, jihad, terrorism, etc. IMO now is the time to start to reconsider your investment decisions. Homeland security will not be amused and will not want to hear that these are benign domains meant for PPC or resale. Yes, you can be assured that Homeland security is a customer of organizations such as domaintools.

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Please give the scaremongering a cease-fire. There are plenty of reasons to own these types of domains; mainly for the greater good. The CIA isn't going to be knocking down any doors. In fact these crazy times just makes these domains more valuable at this point and time.