"?" with US OVT score of 70K, Google Trend highrer than "Tokyo"

[TrafficDomainer]

I recently successfully registered "www.?.com" with punycodes XN--PID.COM. It resolves if you type the punycode but not when you type "?". Any idea why this is the case? Surprisingly it has a US OVT score of over 70,000 and the search trend is higher than tokyo on Google Trends.

Any insight into this will be greatly appreciative.

Cheers!

[touchring]

Sometimes, unknown characters are displayed as question mark - yes, the ascii question mark, and not some special question mark.

[Drewbert]

You've regged "MYANMAR LETTER GA"

One day it could be worth a crap load of money.

[TrafficDomainer]

If I could get "?.com" to resolve correctly this would be great with quite a decent OVT score. Any idea who I can contact to inquire about this. ICANN?

Originally Posted by touchring

Sometimes, unknown characters are displayed as question mark - yes, the ascii question mark, and not some special question mark.

[blastfromthepast]

Originally Posted by TrafficDomainer

If I could get "?.com" to resolve correctly this would be great with quite a decent OVT score. Any idea who I can contact to inquire about this. ICANN?

!?%$. are not a valid characters for ascii domain names, these ascii characters will never resolve to punycode because they are ascii. Release of !?%$. is unlikely.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by TrafficDomainer

If I could get "?.com" to resolve correctly this would be great with quite a decent OVT score. Any idea who I can contact to inquire about this. ICANN?

You did not have ?.com!

The punycode translates to ?.com because the character can't appear on your system, and ? is used replace such unknown characters.

[TrafficDomainer]

Thanks!

Originally Posted by touchring

You did not have ?.com!

The punycode translates to ?.com because the character can't appear on your system, and ? is used replace such unknown characters.