I googled this from some dude's blog back in August, don't know if many of you saw it: . I'm interested in your thoughts.
http://james.seng.sg/archives/cat_idn.html
And...don't bother, I already registered 日食中継.com "total eclipse" and 日食.com "eclipse" before posting this.
August 04, 2005
IETF Day Four
» IDN, IETF, Travel
Nakayama-sensei from Tokyo University shared a very pleasant story with me this morning.
They runs a popular site called Live Eclipse that keeps track of eclipse schedule. The site also have an Japanese IDN 日食中継.jp which they publise concurrently.
On the last eclipse, 9th April, they have over 2m hits in a single day. The interesting part is 15.8%, or over 400k of the hits comes from the IDN name 日食中継.jp. This is very surprising because the data we have in the past shows very little (less then 1%) utilization of IDN. This maybe the coming of age for IDN :-)
(Please bear in mind that 15.8% resolution is despite the fact that IE still don't have IDN support.)