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Originally Posted by Jeff
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)
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Well, we've all got consensus that .com is strong in China and for Arabic (despite the right to right and left to right problem), and moderately strong in Japan - traffic already shows that. But at the same time, ctlds aren't going to go away for either.
As for il and gr, i've not seen evidence of even minor type-in traffic. Pls refer to your own portfolio, filter off North American traffic for both languages and you know what i mean.
Of course, type-in traffic isn't everything - .coms are as just as good for SEO purpose.
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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck
Perhaps not, but if we are talking markets, the ccTLD extensions are still very weak. I have sold several .co.jp but in the aftermarket there is no indication that they are on par with dot com. May be this will change later, but I am not convinced. The domains I sold yesterday, the only clear part of the specification yesterday was dot com and that is the pattern.
If you are absolutely convinced about ccTLDs the logical thing to do is buy dot coms early, sell them and then reinvest in even better ccTLDs.
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There are currently 2 markets that exists on IDNF - collector's market and commercial market. Collector being people that collect domains as artworks that they put in the living room, and commercial market being people that invests in domains and generate revenue. Many of us both collect and invest at the same time, although with varying degree.
Most ctlds do not come under the radar of the "collector's" market because most collectors are new to the domain market and prefer .coms as that tld has the highest publicity profile, being most widely speculated, and regarded as the "Safer" investment - no risk of having PRC government to confiscate your domain, etc. Investors, OTOH, have an ROI in mind and will not pay the kind of prices resellers can fetch by selling to collectors.