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Originally Posted by JamieMac
1. Do languages/countries that have an alphabet that isn't compatible with ASCII would have a greater upside in the IDN realm than would say French or German? I would think that you'd see greater traffic for simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian/Cyrilic or Japanese than you would for the same term as an IDN in French or German. Is this the case?
2. In general are IDNs more of a buy and hold play right now, or are they getting enough traffic to monetize on them now? Or is it a fractured market, wherein only a few monster terms are working in each language?
3. Where can I find info on the secondary market for IDN's? Especially Russian and Swedish?
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Hi, welcome.
1. I don't believe that there is any difference in the traffic a latin or non-latin IDN will receive, all other things being equal. The reason is that German people don't type "koln" when they are searching for "köln", and search engines will match "köln.com" or "köln.de" to a search for "köln" better than they will to "koln.com" or "koln.de". However, users of latin based scripts can certainly type in koln.com or koeln.com easier than a Chinese person could type in "beijing.com".
2. IDNs monetize just as well as ascii IMO. Adsense is available for most major languages. This is late in the game, though. You will be hard pressed to find any generic IDNs available that have high OVT scores and would thus receive enough traffic to generate revenue. Anything of value needs to be bought secondary now. All major languages have been strip-mined.
3. This forum is the best place on the net for IDN info and secondary market, bar none. Most of the major IDN domainers are here, a lot of the knowledge is here, etc. We also discuss quite a lot of non-domain related stuff, but don't let that throw you off.
4. The surest way to get flamed, kicked, banned, ridiculed, etc is to come here and try to trade in domains which are trademarks. Just a friendly forewarning.
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