[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Yes, these patterns will change significantly with IDN.

Take the example of Hebrew. At the moment the main focus it the Israeli extension, because that is the only way Jewish people can find cultural relevant site content easily. The real thing that binds Jewish people is their shared culture and history which is much more closely linked with the language than the country. Only a tiny proportion actually live in Israel. I would think a bilingual keyboard will soon be a must have accessory for most families, whether they fluent or not.

Post IDN it will not be necessary to use the Israeli country code to find Hebrew content. The Hebrew IDN will actually do this much better. You only need to look around this forum to see the level of interest in this language to know that Hebrew.IDN is going to be a massive hit.

This will also be true of other cultures. Russia basically lost the Cold War. It is rubbing salt into the wound to expect them to adopt the script and the extension of the victorious US to allow them surf the Internet. It helps even less when the US professes to own it. Once the Russian can use their own native script and the gTLDs (note g stands for Global not Gringo) then they will feel much more comfortable with Russian.IDN of all descriptions.

IDN will change so much that even the people on this forum are still struggling to imagine its impact!



Well I sold two geographical generics in Chinese yesterday for $5K each. I think they were pretty cheap too really. I haven't achieved that in Japanese as yet, so I would not forcibly say that Chinese is less valuable than Japanese. Much will depend on the individual mind sets of the buyers. I know Olney sold one short of $10K in Japanes the other day and Giant picked up $4K on a ludicrously cheap sale of a Chinese.

With very top terms it gets difficult at the short-term valuation mean little to most registrants. I think it is fair to say that Russian is not worth as much as Chinese or Japanese and a factor of 2 seems a reasonable diffential, however, that is not much use if you have no accurate measurement of where the market is currently. For both Chinese and Japanese it is now somewhere north of $5K for top generics, but it is difficult to be very specific, it may realistically be closer to the $10K mark.

I think $5K is about the right sort of mark for Russian, and one should expect some real quality for that, but the very top terms and top Geographics are probably already North of that figure in most peoples minds.

It's very hard to gauge the market when most likely speculators bought the names from you. Just because we have IDN now doesn't mean the major .il .gr .jp .cn sites are all of a sudden going to swoop to a .com extension. (or citizens are going to switch overnight)