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squirrel
4th May 2012, 03:57 PM
on dynadot expired auction,

if you could pm me I'd appreciate.

Thx

tee1
4th May 2012, 04:37 PM
I thought they were Hindi when I saw them in the auction list, I think dynadot jacked up the font size. I thought Bengali displayed smaller than Hindi, I am sure this not the correct way to put this but whoever bought it might think they bought a Hindi name Just saying. I am done now and will delete rambling mess this if you wish :)

squirrel
4th May 2012, 04:41 PM
No problem Tim, I don't mind comments and ramblings in my threads. The most interesting bits of information are always in the off topic discussions

bumblebee man
4th May 2012, 08:02 PM
how much did it go for?
Posted via Mobile Device

squirrel
4th May 2012, 08:04 PM
I don't know

Wot
5th May 2012, 12:35 AM
how much did it go for?
Posted via Mobile Device

$11.75 I think along with "loan" and another one.

oldguy
6th January 2013, 09:41 PM
I only own a single Bengali name বিনামূল্যে .com
and am amazed how little activity i see in this language, for it to be # 6 ranked.

Jay
7th January 2013, 03:24 AM
I only own a single Bengali name বিনামূল্যে .com
and am amazed how little activity i see in this language, for it to be # 6 ranked.

বিনামূল্যে has an exact GAKT of 16, so no surprises there.

oldguy
7th January 2013, 04:55 AM
বিনামূল্যে translated = free
so the surprising part is the 16

Jay
7th January 2013, 07:39 AM
Well people would normally search for free 'something' - e.g. free music, free movies, free games, free porn.

domainguru
7th January 2013, 08:24 AM
I only own a single Bengali name বিনামূল্যে .com
and am amazed how little activity i see in this language, for it to be # 6 ranked.

#6 ranked where?

domainguru
7th January 2013, 08:28 AM
Well people would normally search for free 'something' - e.g. free music, free movies, free games, free porn.

Yeah that's right. Be very interesting for languages like Bengali to see if the "explosion" in local language use on the net shows any signs of happening for real. GAKT is as good a way as any to detect that trend, presuming Google is big in the region which I guess it is.

What do the top Hindi / Bengali search terms do re: GAKT anyone?

Rubber Duck
7th January 2013, 09:16 AM
Ah, I remember when even the best Arabic Generics would not show up in Google Search.

Nostalgia is not what it was. :(

bumblebee man
7th January 2013, 09:18 AM
Well people would normally search for free 'something' - e.g. free music, free movies, free games, free porn.

Even broad search of 260 is pretty lame. So either this isn't prime or Bengali is hopeless.


What do the top Hindi / Bengali search terms do re: GAKT anyone?

My best Hindi keyword गेम gets 5,400 [exact] on desktops and 8,100 [exact] on mobile devices.

Some other top terms I don't own:
भारत - 12,100
क्रिकेट - 12,100
ताजमहल - 8,100

As for Bengali even 4 figure search volume seems pretty rare.

alpha
7th January 2013, 09:24 AM
As for Bengali even 4 figure search volume seems pretty rare.

Coupled with the fact that Bengali doesn't have a IDN gTLD in the queue either.
Sounds like a loooong wait. Hoard a couple for the hell of it, but I wouldn't want to be carrying a ton of them, that sounds like a mortgage.

domainguru
7th January 2013, 09:26 AM
Ah, I remember when even the best Arabic Generics would not show up in Google Search.

Nostalgia is not what it was. :(

How long ago was that? Perhaps people were searching in Arabic but Google hadn't incorporated the results into their DB yet?

What's a prime Arabic search term? Be interesting to research, to see the growth pattern, timespan etc.

domainguru
7th January 2013, 09:28 AM
Coupled with the fact that Bengali doesn't have a IDN gTLD in the queue either.
Sounds like a loooong wait. Hoard a couple for the hell of it, but I wouldn't want to be carrying a ton of them, that sounds like a mortgage.

Sounds like my son would be carrying a mortgage :-p

Rubber Duck
7th January 2013, 11:28 AM
How long ago was that? Perhaps people were searching in Arabic but Google hadn't incorporated the results into their DB yet?

What's a prime Arabic search term? Be interesting to research, to see the growth pattern, timespan etc.

In 2004 when we started Chinese was largely in PinYin and Bitmap images. Later you had big five but Unicode took a while longer.

Arabic, not sure but probably around 2007 before it started showing up in Search.

Arabic never really took off parking wise until last year. Now it is like a house on fire.

To be honest, at the moment it would not make much difference if nothing else was making anything, which is about what is happening in relative terms.

555
7th January 2013, 11:58 AM
A very small sample, compared from older threads:

Arabic: الجنة had 13million results in Aug 2007 , now showing more then 80 million

Chinese: 闽 had 10 million results in mid 2006 , now showing 95 million

Cyrillic: инспекция went from 2.8 million in 2006 to 23 million google results

*анекдоты had 270k in wordstat.yandex.ru in 2006, then 800k in Aug 2010, It currently shows 1.9million

Rubber Duck
7th January 2013, 12:40 PM
How long ago was that? Perhaps people were searching in Arabic but Google hadn't incorporated the results into their DB yet?

What's a prime Arabic search term? Be interesting to research, to see the growth pattern, timespan etc.

I don't believe there was an Arabic Internet of any significance in 2004. It is more likely there was nothing to Search.

oldguy
7th January 2013, 04:45 PM
#6 ranked where?

Bengali is the 6th most used language in the world (some stats rank it 7).

http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm shows internet penetration as a % among the top 20 nations and it ranks India as the farthest behind with 11%.

With India having the highest concentration of both Hindi and Bengali speakers, plus the fact that population studies show India will become a greater population than even China, it makes a good case for a young patient person to take another look at Hindi / Bengali.

Hindi is the 4th most popular language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

I'm not entering these markets, but they are interesting.

bwhhisc
7th January 2013, 05:35 PM
ভালোবাসা.com this Bengali gets traffic, not huge by 20+ a month and probably will cover renewal cost this year. Hindi across the board are much better, remind me of how traffic started to blip up with Russian and Arabic 6 years ago....

domainguru
7th January 2013, 06:36 PM
A very small sample, compared from older threads:

Arabic: الجنة had 13million results in Aug 2007 , now showing more then 80 million

Chinese: 闽 had 10 million results in mid 2006 , now showing 95 million

Cyrillic: инспекция went from 2.8 million in 2006 to 23 million google results

*анекдоты had 270k in wordstat.yandex.ru in 2006, then 800k in Aug 2010, It currently shows 1.9million

Umm but I'm sure that is true pretty much across the board for all languages. The number of pages on the Internet can only grow can't it. The index will just keep ballooning, even in good old English. But certainly be interesting to see a graph of web pages per script / language over the last 10 years to see where the real growth has been. I know the graph is out there somewhere :)

yanni
7th January 2013, 09:38 PM
No comparison graph but (latest):

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/all

and, 2000:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1697080/web-pages-language

Gary has a thing for graphs....


added: looks like Arabic was a big mover during this period.

mgrohan
8th January 2013, 12:00 AM
Bengali is the 6th most used language in the world (some stats rank it 7).

http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm shows internet penetration as a % among the top 20 nations and it ranks India as the farthest behind with 11%.

6th most used language because Bangladesh has a population of 160 million. Although something like 75%+ live on less than 2$ a day. Outside most the African nations, it's among the poorest countries in the world.
One of the most depressing places i have visited.
With so much disease and children starving i guess the internet and idns is not the highest priority.

oldguy
8th January 2013, 12:46 AM
6th most used language because Bangladesh has a population of 160 million. Although something like 75%+ live on less than 2$ a day. Outside most the African nations, it's among the poorest countries in the world.
One of the most depressing places i have visited.
With so much disease and children starving i guess the internet and idns is not the highest priority.

Yikes - not good. I was afraid that was a part of the problem. It's more severe than i thought.

Rubber Duck
8th January 2013, 01:00 AM
Maybe but things change.

India will soon be making more cars than the US.

domainguru
9th January 2013, 05:45 AM
No comparison graph but (latest):

http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/all

and, 2000:

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1697080/web-pages-language

Gary has a thing for graphs....


added: looks like Arabic was a big mover during this period.

Thai has gone from "not on the graph" to 0.3% - still love to see proper trending graphs ...... bet Gary is keeping them somewhere safe :-p

But upon reading the "w3techs methodology", it is fatally flawed i.e. biased against non-English sites:

"We investigate technologies of websites, not of individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.
We include only the top 1 million websites in the statistics in order to limit the impact of domain spammers. We use website popularity rankings provided by Alexa (an Amazon.com company) using a 3 months average ranking. Alexa rankings are sometimes considered inaccurate for measuring website traffic, but we find that they serve our purpose of providing a representative sample of established sites very well.:

Just using Alexa ranked sites. Give me a f****ng break ............. any decent reports out there? I know Google has some tucked away ....