[Rubber Duck]

It has always baffled me why these names were still available anyway!

When the traditional get rich dot commer is out buying "dictionarywordunrelatedwordanotherunrelateddictionaryword.com" why really good terms in Chinese and Japanese are still available.

Actually, the some Chinese words are going to be worth more than conventional dot coms. This is not simply because of the demographics or economics but the awesome power of the language itself. Chinese is the least ambigious language on earth. If you have the crucial term, there are no plurals or tenses to worry about. The only way anyone can get next to you is by adding another word, and as you know that kills the thing dead. There is also not going to be much scope for typo either. Mistype a glyph and you are not going to end up anywhere that is vaguely related.

The really valuable names are not going to be single characters, but single keystoke characters. We definitely have some of those. Words that be generated by a single keystroke are going to be worth a fortune!

Anyway, back on the availability front, that is the nature of markets and speculation. You have to get in when demand is low and sell after it increases significantly. Your observations suggest that the time for buying is passing and the time for selling is coming, which means that we all stand to make profits. Generally, those that got in earliest will make the most.

The market will then go onto to develop, so that the value of individual investment drops, but the breadth of the market increases substantially. More obscure terms will attract interest from buyers. If these keymarkets are getting out reach, then I would suggest that you move on to other opportunities. It is still bloody nigh impossible to get a local character translation for most of the South Asian Languages. I found some terms yesterday and booked them, but it will probably be sometime before I figure out what they mean. Here only a handful of term get Overture and there is no local tool, so Google is still the main measure and a score of 50K on Goolge is very high in most languages. The terms available are really exceptional. In Chinese, even I was too late to pick up some of the stuff I am getting in Indic scripts.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon