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bioliwu
24th February 2009, 07:33 AM
because more than 50% Japanese think .com is a foreign domain..:D

what do you think?
bwhhisc
24th February 2009, 07:40 AM
because more than 50% Japanese think .com is a foreign domain..:D what do you think?

That has been debated here many times. Curious where you got those statistics from...do you have a link to the source?
Rubber Duck
24th February 2009, 08:56 AM
Total registrations of IDN.jp have fallen in each of the last 9 Months.

http://jprs.co.jp/en/stat/domains.html

What proof do you need?
camarro
24th February 2009, 04:37 PM
because more than 50% Japanese think .com is a foreign domain..:D

what do you think?


i think you need to spend a little time reviewing past threads from this forum.
bwhhisc
24th February 2009, 05:46 PM
because more than 50% Japanese think .com is a foreign domain..:D what do you think?

Based on past threads, the concensus seemed to be that both idn.com and idn.jp have good future potential. Some liked .com better, some liked .jp better. For geo and city names, .jp is taken by the registry for the most part, so .com is the only play there. There was also a feeling from some native speakers that .net will also do well in Japan. For the top tier of names, quite a few idn.biz have been registered by locals as well.