IDN Forum Members - Introduce Yourself

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by mulligan

Damn .. How come I didn't get any free lists ..

I think they were only given out to AARP members

[Rubber Duck]

Well many expect to turn up seven years late and register all the good terms.

What people forget is that IDN were out before FS even got going!

It has been like maturing very rare scotch whisky. Do they really think people are going to hand it all over for buttons!

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

The lists cost because they all had lots of labor, manhours and TIME associated with them.
In some cases hundreds of hours I am sure. I know that I paid college kids for well over 100 hours
of work to further refine lists I paid for, do physical check on google pages, wikipedia, compile the bids
for each term, etc. It was all a game of hours and time and that simply costs money.

Most sold lists to me at their cost of recouping their out of pocket costs. All in all it was the best money I have spent.
Especially now as things get thin, lists are probably the only way to go to cut thru the massive amount of search.

[npcomplete]

Hi everybody, this is my second post here. I started buying domain names in mid-1996... when it was a lot easier to pick up five star names off the registry floor. While my career and schooling is in physics and mathematics, over the years I have learned (and forgotten) German, French, Greek, and Italian. I am married to an Italian so I am still active in that language. I have always loved language studies and lately have been *trying* to learn Japanese and Chinese. For many years I have had Japanese on the reverse side of my business card for our Japanese customers, but I have never made a serious attempt to learn the language until now. In my "day job" I work in the research group of a large corporation in the northwest, where I focus on "NP-Complete" problems in mathematics, hence the username. My overall focus is in the mathematics of distributed systems, and the problems involved in designing a distributed system (large system of computers connected on a network, sometimes performing tasks by sharing resources). This is where these NP-Complete problems enter into systems design and management. The DARPA Ultralog system for "survivable" distributed computing uses my solver for state management of risk and performance of a distributed agent system, in essence moving the jobs and servers around hosts to optimize performance and risk in real time. This allows sharing of jobs and subtasks, and self-healing after part of the system is damaged. What I do is use techniques in physics (modeled on a computer) to solve hard problems (NP-Hard) in math in near real time. Not a good topic at a party... So that's the day job. I do run a few sites that get about 10,000 pages/day, and over a thousand others that I park for ppc. I do get traffic from other nations on my developed sites, so I would also be interested in learning about tailoring my sites for other countries. When not using Fabulous to monetize a parked page, I use DomainSponsor, or put Adsense ads on the developed sites. I am interested in reading the archives about other monetization methods for Japanese and Chinese.

I am still buying names, but my focus lately has been on selling. Most of my high quality names are in English, so I won't be posting about them here. While here I do hope to learn a bit and share, and perhaps buy a few names. I suppose I will spend a lot of time here reading in forums where I know the least (Chinese).

Most of my portfolio is parked and registered at Fabulous. I also hope to pick up some things about monetization and SEO here, since Fabulous doesn't do this with my new obsession (IDN).

Marc

[thegenius1]

Originally Posted by npcomplete

Hi everybody, this is my second post here. I started buying domain names in mid-1996... when it was a lot easier to pick up five star names off the registry floor. While my career and schooling is in physics and mathematics, over the years I have learned (and forgotten) German, French, Greek, and Italian. I am married to an Italian so I am still active in that language. I have always loved language studies and lately have been *trying* to learn Japanese and Chinese. For many years I have had Japanese on the reverse side of my business card for our Japanese customers, but I have never made a serious attempt to learn the language until now. In my "day job" I work in the research group of a large corporation in the northwest, where I focus on "NP-Complete" problems in mathematics, hence the username. My overall focus is in the mathematics of distributed systems, and the problems involved in designing a distributed system (large system of computers connected on a network, sometimes performing tasks by sharing resources). This is where these NP-Complete problems enter into systems design and management. The DARPA Ultralog system for "survivable" distributed computing uses my solver for state management of risk and performance of a distributed agent system, in essence moving the jobs and servers around hosts to optimize performance and risk in real time. This allows sharing of jobs and subtasks, and self-healing after part of the system is damaged. What I do is use techniques in physics (modeled on a computer) to solve hard problems (NP-Hard) in math in near real time. Not a good topic at a party... So that's the day job. I do run a few sites that get about 10,000 pages/day, and over a thousand others that I park for ppc. I do get traffic from other nations on my developed sites, so I would also be interested in learning about tailoring my sites for other countries. When not using Fabulous to monetize a parked page, I use DomainSponsor, or put Adsense ads on the developed sites. I am interested in reading the archives about other monetization methods for Japanese and Chinese.

I am still buying names, but my focus lately has been on selling. Most of my high quality names are in English, so I won't be posting about them here. While here I do hope to learn a bit and share, and perhaps buy a few names. I suppose I will spend a lot of time here reading in forums where I know the least (Chinese).

Most of my portfolio is parked and registered at Fabulous. I also hope to pick up some things about monetization and SEO here, since Fabulous doesn't do this with my new obsession (IDN).

Marc

Congrats Marc on catching the IDN bug

Glad to have you on board , If i can be of any help just shoot me a pm but i will state that for parking IDN's most consider NameDrive at the moment: NAME DRIVE
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[Fka200]

Welcome aboard Marc!

I'm Sammy from Los Angeles, California.

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by npcomplete

Hi everybody, this is my second post here. I started buying domain names in mid-1996... when it was a lot easier to pick up five star names off the registry floor. While my career and schooling is in physics and mathematics, over the years I have learned (and forgotten) German, French, Greek, and Italian. I am married to an Italian so I am still active in that language. I have always loved language studies and lately have been *trying* to learn Japanese and Chinese. For many years I have had Japanese on the reverse side of my business card for our Japanese customers, but I have never made a serious attempt to learn the language until now. In my "day job" I work in the research group of a large corporation in the northwest, where I focus on "NP-Complete" problems in mathematics, hence the username. My overall focus is in the mathematics of distributed systems, and the problems involved in designing a distributed system (large system of computers connected on a network, sometimes performing tasks by sharing resources). This is where these NP-Complete problems enter into systems design and management. The DARPA Ultralog system for "survivable" distributed computing uses my solver for state management of risk and performance of a distributed agent system, in essence moving the jobs and servers around hosts to optimize performance and risk in real time. This allows sharing of jobs and subtasks, and self-healing after part of the system is damaged. What I do is use techniques in physics (modeled on a computer) to solve hard problems (NP-Hard) in math in near real time. Not a good topic at a party... So that's the day job. I do run a few sites that get about 10,000 pages/day, and over a thousand others that I park for ppc. I do get traffic from other nations on my developed sites, so I would also be interested in learning about tailoring my sites for other countries. When not using Fabulous to monetize a parked page, I use DomainSponsor, or put Adsense ads on the developed sites. I am interested in reading the archives about other monetization methods for Japanese and Chinese.

I am still buying names, but my focus lately has been on selling. Most of my high quality names are in English, so I won't be posting about them here. While here I do hope to learn a bit and share, and perhaps buy a few names. I suppose I will spend a lot of time here reading in forums where I know the least (Chinese).

Most of my portfolio is parked and registered at Fabulous. I also hope to pick up some things about monetization and SEO here, since Fabulous doesn't do this with my new obsession (IDN).

Marc

Finally an IDNFer with more domains than Rubber Duck ;-)

[Rubber Duck]

Damn, I wish I had been active in 1996.

Welcome aboard Marc!

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Damn, I wish I had been active in 1996.

Welcome aboard Marc!

What the hell were you doing in 1996? ;-)

[bwhhisc]

Welcome to IDNF. Can you share a few of your most favorite ascii names.

I am sure a few here will say..."hey, I have that same word in Rajasthani, Luxembourgish, and Uzbek" lol

Again, welcome not too late to find some good names.

[rhys]

Welcome to IDNF. I work for a large technology company in the Northwest too. My company is in Redmond if that is any giveaway. How about you? You can PM me if you want to keep that more on the downlow.

[Bruins]

Congrats Marc on getting into idns.
It may actually take off some day. There are a lot of believers here.
I'm one of them.
Started in ASCII in '95

[npcomplete]

Originally Posted by rhys

Welcome to IDNF. I work for a large technology company in the Northwest too. My company is in Redmond if that is any giveaway. How about you? You can PM me if you want to keep that more on the downlow.

Hi neighbor, and thanks everybody!

Yes, I think I can figure that one out. I work in the Math & Computing Technology organization of a large company formerly based in Seattle, although recently the overall corporate headquarters was moved to Chicago. Anyway, it is good to run into local people on the forum! Say hi to the other members of your large technology company based in Redmond from one of the employees of a small research group in a large company formerly based in Seattle but now based in Chicago.

I bet FormerlyBasedInSeattle.com is available. I don't know about the traditional Chinese version... that is why I am here. And hello again everybody!

Marc

[thefabfive]

Welcome onboard, Marc. Lots to learn here and you're definitely not too late to join the party.

I also work for a company formerly based in Seattle that recently moved corporate headquarters to Chicago... hmm.

[Rubber Duck]

Marc, you are certainly not too late. Most of the really good stuff is regged, but the aftermarket has been stalled for a couple of months really, so the biggest is limitation is the extent of your ambition.

[IDNCowboy]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Marc, you are certainly not too late. Most of the really good stuff is regged, but the aftermarket has been stalled for a couple of months really, so the biggest is limitation is the extent of your ambition.

translation take out your pocketbook and do what alphamale did... buy 50% of someones portfolio ;-)

[xpresto]

Hi,

It's nice to join you guys - I found a lot of usefull info about IDNs here.

I'm a beginner domainer - I got some domains - primarily IDNs.
I have a number of them now and my main question is - how to sell some of them. I understand that value of a good domain raises over time, but you still have to pay these renewal fees every year.

Just wanted to say special hello to Rubber Duck - I've seen him on many domaining places over the net and read a lot of his good posts - hope it's the same person :-)

Thanks and Happy upcoming New Year.

[tee1]

Welcome xpresto, what languages are you interested in?


as far as selling IDNs this is the best place IMO. check out the sales threads to get an idea of what sells and doesn't sell.


as far as revenue for renewals, you can either park or develop, parking has picked up for most of us check out namedrive.com.

welcome and good luck


tee1

[Sanakreon]

Hi everybody,

I am a beginner in IDN business, so I hope to learn a lot here.
I was born in Azerbaijan, so both azeri and russian are my native languages. But now I live and study in Japan for already 2 years, so I can understand japanese pretty well also. If u need any help with these languages, pm me, I am always ready to help.
Japanese IDNs are my only interest, and for many of the domains that I buy, I have some plans of developing them into working websites.
It's a pity that I didn't hear anything about IDNs untill now, since most of the good names are already taken.. I wish if I knew about it 5 years ago
Anyway, I believe that IDNs have bright future, and I hope to contribute to IDNforums community in all ways I can.

Thank u for this wonderful forum,

Sanakreon

[thefabfive]

Welcome to the forum, Sanakreon. Good to have you here.