.jp vs .com Japanese IDNs

[IDNCowboy]

You guys keep referring to .jp's being $60 a year... after its been scrambled on the ground many times that they can be $30 (two for one sale) or as low as $20 if you buy in bulk http://spec.jp-domains.com

Anyways, a big company is not going to lose fluff on his wallet by putting $30/year on a high class domain. You're talking about $22 extra dollars... Just because speculators want to be cheap and register the .com doesn't mean the .com will prevail. We aren't talking about hundreds of dollars in difference. If someone pays you $2000 for your IDN i'm sure they can afford to pay the $20-$30 renewal fee! These big companies pay thousands of dollars in monthly rent! This is basically a write off. (renewal fee costs)

[moe]

You NEVER own a domain name you only rent it....it sucks

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Jeff

You guys keep referring to .jp's being $60 a year... after its been scrambled on the ground many times that they can be $30 (two for one sale) or as low as $20 if you buy in bulk http://spec.jp-domains.com

Anyways, a big company is not going to lose fluff on his wallet by putting $30/year on a high class domain. You're talking about $22 extra dollars... Just because speculators want to be cheap and register the .com doesn't mean the .com will prevail. We aren't talking about hundreds of dollars in difference. If someone pays you $2000 for your IDN i'm sure they can afford to pay the $20-$30 renewal fee! These big companies pay thousands of dollars in monthly rent! This is basically a write off. (renewal fee costs)

I believe that $30 is a discounted rate. Even for Domainsite, $6.99 is a discounted rate, i've just renewed a batch of domains for $7.99, a dollar more.

As for the strength of dot com in Japan, one only needs to look at http://www.kakaku.com/

.jp is native and used by many sites, but .com is no loser as it is brandable.

[donwebcorleone]

Originally Posted by touchring

I believe that $30 is a discounted rate. Even for Domainsite, $6.99 is a discounted rate, i've just renewed a batch of domains for $7.99, a dollar more.

As for the strength of dot com in Japan, one only needs to look at http://www.kakaku.com/

.jp is native and used by many sites, but .com is no loser as it is brandable.

dont use kakaku.com as a reference, it is an old website, they grew up as a .com company, the same as walmart.com , or u want now for them to change to walmart.us , amazon.us , etc . u should pay attention to new websites (in the post .com era, i mean ccTLD), for instance, now toyota in japan start using only toyota.jp in the TV ads; i can also tell you hundreds more of .jp that i keep watching on TV every night , in fact i watch a very few .com in japanese tv for post .com companies or products. they advertize a lot their company .jp in tv commercials.