Städte.de & Länder.de - IDN Forums

Wot · #1 01-22-2008, 09:38 AM

Sold at Sedo 11,100 eurós each.

touchring · #2 01-22-2008, 10:19 AM

Looks like most of the buyers of de are from germany. Smart moves in my opinion. .De IDN are sure winners.

jacksonm · #3 01-22-2008, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by touchring

Looks like most of the buyers of de are from germany. Smart moves in my opinion. .De IDN are sure winners.

Not much commercial value or potential for type-in with these two if you ask me.

cities.de
states.de

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Rubber Duck · #4 01-22-2008, 11:51 AM

These Auctions closed before Christmas. I was wondering how these didn't get reported. Where did you find them?

jacksonm · #5 01-22-2008, 12:14 PM

German IDN.com must have no resale value. Strange, since most of the German IDN.coms are owned by Germans.

Thinking about German geo domains, I just picked this one up. I think it was a drop, as the dot info has been taken for 4 years already.

köln-bonn.com (xn--kln-bonn-n4a.com)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region_K%C3%B6ln/Bonn

I have concluded that Germans almost unanimously use the dash to separate words in domains.

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sunsei21 · #6 01-22-2008, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jacksonm

German IDN.com must have no resale value. Strange, since most of the German IDN.coms are owned by Germans.

Thinking about German geo domains, I just picked this one up. I think it was a drop, as the dot info has been taken for 4 years already.

köln-bonn.com (xn--kln-bonn-n4a.com)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region_K%C3%B6ln/Bonn

I have concluded that Germans almost unanimously use the dash to separate words in domains.

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ya they do i asked on a german forum to bad .com is so weak for german

touchring · #7 01-22-2008, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jacksonm

Not much commercial value or potential for type-in with these two if you ask me.

cities.de
states.de

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then do you think japanese or chinese names get much type-in? for japanese and chinese, we need to calculate type-in by stacks of 100 names, or it will go to 0.1 type-in per name per month. LOL.

jacksonm · #8 01-22-2008, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sunsei21

ya they do i asked on a german forum to bad .com is so weak for german

Weak in which way? For resale? I don't care; I plan on keeping mine.

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Amirmullick3 · #9 01-23-2008, 12:37 AM

Good job selling those. I have .de domains as well, but I cant get them out to anyone! LOL. Someday though. Germans huh...?

mulligan · #10 01-23-2008, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Amirmullick3

Good job selling those. I have .de domains as well, but I cant get them out to anyone! LOL. Someday though. Germans huh...?

What does 'Germans huh...?' mean?

sunsei21 · #11 01-23-2008, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jacksonm

Weak in which way? For resale? I don't care; I plan on keeping mine.

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ya resale im keeping mine as well

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Originally Posted by mulligan

What does 'Germans huh...?' mean?

his post have been random at best lol

mulligan · #12 01-23-2008, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sunsei21

ya resale im keeping mine as well

his post have been random at best lol

'random' is putting it politely ...

sunsei21 · #13 01-23-2008, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by mulligan

'random' is putting it politely ...

lol

jacksonm · #14 01-23-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by sunsei21

ya resale im keeping mine as well

Well, obviously if Germans didn't see value in IDN.com then they wouldn't have bought nearly all of them between 4 and 6 years ago! The country has over 80 million people, so the dot de namespace gets crowded real fast.

Try this test:

Using Google.de, I selected "Seiten auf Deutsch" (pages in German) - this also includes Austria, some of Switzerland, some of Belgium, etc, etc.

Search for site:.de

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

25.8 million results

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Search for site:.com

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

24.6 million results

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Search for site:.net

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

2.94 million results

--

To me, it seems that dot com is right on par with dot de for sites which are written in German language (for internal consumption), but they really don't like dot net much at all.

Now, this is where dot com really whomps dot de's ass - sites inside Germany which are written in any language (mostly english, for foreign customers, etc).

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Go to Google.de, select "Seiten aus Deutschland".

Search for site:.com

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...cr%3DcountryDE

79 million results

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Search for site:.de

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...cr%3DcountryDE

47.3 million results

--

Well, those stats are only useful if you trust Google's indexes to be accurate, but they do provide some sort of picture.

I also have development possibilities since I can speak German, unlike Japanese. German PPC also seems to be on par or even higher than Japanese - my experience has been that the average is about 5 cents higher per click (22 cents with German, compared to 17 cents with Japanese). CTR is also higher since Germans aren't all surfing with mobile phones. And you don't have to contend with that damned yahoo - I hate that search engine, it's like a freaking roller coaster ride.

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sunsei21 · #15 01-23-2008, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Well, obviously if Germans didn't see value in IDN.com then they wouldn't have bought nearly all of them between 4 and 6 years ago! The country has over 80 million people, so the dot de namespace gets crowded real fast.

Try this test:

Using Google.de, I selected "Seiten auf Deutsch" (pages in German) - this also includes Austria, some of Switzerland, some of Belgium, etc, etc.

Search for site:.de

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

25.8 million results

--

Search for site:.com

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

24.6 million results

--

Search for site:.net

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...a=lr%3Dlang_de

2.94 million results

--

To me, it seems that dot com is right on par with dot de for sites which are written in German language (for internal consumption), but they really don't like dot net much at all.

Now, this is where dot com really whomps dot de's ass - sites inside Germany which are written in any language (mostly english, for foreign customers, etc).

--

Go to Google.de, select "Seiten aus Deutschland".

Search for site:.com

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...cr%3DcountryDE

79 million results

--

Search for site:.de

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...cr%3DcountryDE

47.3 million results

--

Well, those stats are only useful if you trust Google's indexes to be accurate, but they do provide some sort of picture.

I also have development possibilities since I can speak German, unlike Japanese. German PPC also seems to be on par or even higher than Japanese - my experience has been that the average is about 5 cents higher per click (22 cents with German, compared to 17 cents with Japanese). CTR is also higher since Germans aren't all surfing with mobile phones. And you don't have to contend with that damned yahoo - I hate that search engine, it's like a freaking roller coaster ride.

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lol i agree adsense and SE .coms will surely gain ground just looking at the sales proportions .de and seems .info is out in front but germans are big domainers there are some tome top tier .us they own as well

german clicks pay so much better too