Google indexing NameDrive pages

[touchring]

Originally Posted by mulligan

Its a total generic so I cant see it being TM'd
Though it would probably be prudent to register a TM for it. I would have no problems getting it as I am already in that business but where the heck do you register a Japanese TM?

Yes, prudent is the word. Look at that sex.biz guy, someone actually got a trademark on SEX! And they won the domain arbitration. He got to spend god knows how much legal money and how many years to get back his name.

I was also thinking of protecting some of the better generic names i got, can't figure out what better steps, other than the first step - remove the "For Sale" sign.

[Rubber Duck]

Probably the best strategy is diversification. Lots of different countries, lots of different types of domains and plenty of them. If you have 100 domains worth $10K you are much less at risk than having one domain worth $1 M.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Probably the best strategy is diversification. Lots of different countries, lots of different types of domains and plenty of them. If you have 100 domains worth $10K you are much less at risk than having one domain worth $1 M.

It depends on the name, generic names with traffic can go 10, 20 or 30 times beyond 10k.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by touchring

It depends on the name, generic names with traffic can go 10, 20 or 30 times beyond 10k.

I wasn't really suggesting limiting the potential value of individual domain names. What I was trying to suggest was to create a broad diversified portfolio. If you only have $10K to invest make sure that you get a reasonable spread rather than putting all your eggs in one basket.

[Alphamale]

A while ago it was identified that Yahoo was struggling to properly index parked Japanese pages, due to the fact that the spiders doing the indexing were based outside of Japan (in USA), and therefore what was being indexed was English based text ads and not Japanese.

While we all recongised that this is a Yahoo indexing issue, ND took it upon themselves to develop a solution.

The solution in progress is what is being called a "language lock", below is a recent update from ND on the progress of this mini-project:

The progression from that will be a "language lock" where you will be able to choose which language the text of the page should be locked in so it will always be displayed in those languages. We are looking into optinos for this and it is obviously a bigger implementation, but Spetmeber is still when I'm hoping it will go live.


-- thanks Ed for the update..

[Drewbert]

Diversification away from just having plain ASCII names was one of the reasons I finally got into IDN.

On that note I recall two stats I heard on TV yesterday...

260 million cellphone users in China currently, 130 million in USA.

4000 students in USA currently in Industrial Design courses.

200,000 in China.

One University in China has 30,000 students. 80% of them are in engineering courses.