Hype? The market is pretty much non-existent at the moment, due to the interminable delays in rolling out the browser, which is the real problem associated with IDN and utter nonsense that has been instilled in the minds of potential investors by the bollocks talkers on this forum.
A small percentage of the members are all in, the rest are just navel gazing and comforted by the idea that simply interjecting the IDN acronym into the conversation is somehow going to make them rich. It won't. Just as we are being kidded into believing that development is yielding massive positive cashflows right now. It is not. If it were there would be a healthy aftermarket. I am not saying that one or two players are not covering costs, they surely are, but the returns are not massive in terms of the investment, otherwise the banks would not be able to operate for the piles of IDN business plans landing on their desks.
By the same token holders of IDN are not about to give them away to those that think they can turn up at the last moment and take them cheapily. I had an end user turn up yesterday trying to buy a Thai domain. He has ten years invested in his site but expected me to part with domain for $200. We didn't even get around to discussing what the real price might be. All I do know is that by the time he comes around to getting things straight in his mind is that it will cost him a lot more than it would have yesterday.
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Originally Posted by touchring
If there wasn't a US centric view in the domain community, would you think that you and I, and many of us here will be that far in the game? There would be 10 times of TDC and we would be left with scraps.
Like what Olney says, we can't count on likes of Frank to come on board, they missed the boat and this is it, they would have to find other opportunities in which they can get an early bird advantage. Timing is everything thing in the domain business. Capital helps, but timing is still the most important imo, especially so for big names.
And just in case if Frank is counting on another dot com bust to free up idns, i think this won't happen, there is no dot com hype in idns today, and idns are sitting comfortably in the hands of the dozens of us wiht only 7$ renewal fees, for which the best names are already well covered by PPC.
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Originally Posted by Alphamale
the .jp version of that name also points at that same ad.
interestingly they chose the .com to go to market on.
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That is because it is about status and prestige rather than narrow nationalistic pride.
They have the differentiator they are looking for in the script. They have no need for a localised extension.
Furthermore, the real prestige with dot JP is in the co.jp as only elite companies can register these. Anyone can register IDN.jp. Are they really going to queue up to join the ranks of the blogging community?
Unfortunately, IDN.co.jp does not support IDN. Migrating to dot JP is only likely to cause confusion, so it makes much more sense to migrate to dot Com.