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bwhhisc
25th November 2014, 03:00 AM
At $265 with 3 days to go. At least seller provides very full disclosure about idn......caveat emptor. "

"The alphabet found in this Domain Name is called Latin Small Capital ᴜ. This letter looks almost similar to the regular ASCII letter U that we are using. This Domain Name is an Internationalized Domain Name. Technically this domain name can be written in puny code form as: xn--j8f.com.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Premium-One-Letter-com-domain-name-1-2-3-4-5-Letter-IDN-NR-No-Reserve-/251727351542?pt=Domain_Names&hash=item3a9c1e8ef6

IdnHost
25th November 2014, 04:06 AM
At $265 with 3 days to go. At least seller provides very full disclosure about idn......caveat emptor. "

"The alphabet found in this Domain Name is called Latin Small Capital ᴜ. This letter looks almost similar to the regular ASCII letter U that we are using. This Domain Name is an Internationalized Domain Name. Technically this domain name can be written in puny code form as: xn--j8f.com.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Premium-One-Letter-com-domain-name-1-2-3-4-5-Letter-IDN-NR-No-Reserve-/251727351542?pt=Domain_Names&hash=item3a9c1e8ef6

$2550 USD? oh dear god.

techguy
25th November 2014, 04:42 AM
Down to 265 again...$2550 possibly a fake bid?

IdnHost
25th November 2014, 05:03 AM
Down to 265 again...$2550 possibly a fake bid?

Most likely bid was retracted after the bidder reading over the listing more carefully or could also be that the seller deleted the last few bids because he or she believed that that bidder was not going to pay for whatever reason.

Rubber Duck
25th November 2014, 07:15 AM
Of more interest of me is the sale of Z.com by Nissan for about $7m dollars.

Buyer is large Japanese company that it is going to rebrand its global operation on a single letter dot com.

OK, it is ASCII but there were only ever three available so it is possible trend followers will do the same on an IDN.com.

Risk of going non-dot com is massive and the single ASCII charachters aren't generally available anyway.

blastfromthepast
25th November 2014, 10:56 AM
He does not have the droit to sale it.

DktoInc
25th November 2014, 08:47 PM
it's a reverse auction now.

bwhhisc
25th November 2014, 09:32 PM
it's a reverse auction now.

Down to $21 now.

DktoInc
25th November 2014, 10:44 PM
is this for real ?? Internationalized Domain Name

Sold For

fìx.com $46,001

wìne.com $31,001

pizzà.com $10,000

vìdeo.com $10,000

techguy
26th November 2014, 12:41 PM
$93 now

htmlindex
27th November 2014, 04:45 AM
Wow bids are all over the place lol. I've never really used Ebay before so this might seem like a silly question. Once someone places a bid on Ebay, can they retract it?

techguy
27th November 2014, 05:16 AM
yes bidders can retract their bids, and sellers can cancel bids, and can block unwanted bidders

techguy
28th November 2014, 05:57 PM
went for $3,150 :eek:

IDNer
30th November 2014, 12:08 AM
Winning bid:US $3,150.00


:eek:

jose
1st December 2014, 01:47 AM
I let got all I had

http://www.idnforums.com/forums/34610-%D1%95-com-cyrillic.html

jose
1st December 2014, 01:49 AM
Here's another one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/l-COM-DOMAIN-NAME-IDN-1-ONE-SINGLE-CHARACTER-LETTER-/251737006972?pt=Domain_Names&hash=item3a9cb1e37c

Avtal
1st December 2014, 02:40 AM
Here's another one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/l-COM-DOMAIN-NAME-IDN-1-ONE-SINGLE-CHARACTER-LETTER-/251737006972?pt=Domain_Names&hash=item3a9cb1e37c

This one is closer to false advertising. In small print, the domain is described as xn--s5a.com. But in large print, the domain is described as l.com, and if you cut-and-paste the "l" in "l.com" into your favorite unicode analyzer, you get "LATIN SMALL LETTER L" , which can't be true.

So what character is actually being sold? If you convert from punycode xn--s5a to unicode, you get "ӏ", which is in fact "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PALOCHKA". The auction for "ᴜ.com" correctly described the "u" as "Latin Small Capital U". The seller of ӏ.com didn't provide similar information.

Avtal

techguy
2nd December 2014, 04:39 PM
So what character is actually being sold? If you convert from punycode xn--s5a to unicode, you get "ӏ", which is in fact "CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PALOCHKA". The auction for "ᴜ.com" correctly described the "u" as "Latin Small Capital U". The seller of ӏ.com didn't provide similar information.

Avtal

Seller of ӏ.com is a newbie, it seems. :lol:

htmlindex
3rd December 2014, 09:31 AM
went for $3,150 :eek:

Wow so IDNs do really sell well. The market isn't dead anymore :lol:

techguy
8th December 2014, 05:23 PM
Another seller has started a new auction, it seems! :lol:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/171572900309

IDNer
10th December 2014, 10:49 PM
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171572900309


Current bid:US $405.00

Bidders:http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif8
Bids:http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif35
Time left:http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif3 days 19 hours

techguy
11th December 2014, 04:48 PM
eBay is plagued with lot of such craps recently!

DktoInc
12th December 2014, 12:36 AM
looks like half those bids are fake. seller is bidding on his own item from multiple accounts making it look like an expensive domain to attract unwary people.

Rubber Duck
12th December 2014, 07:00 AM
looks like half those bids are fake. seller is bidding on his own item from multiple accounts making it look like an expensive domain to attract unwary people.

I thought that was how Ebay was supposed to work.:lol:

IDNer
15th December 2014, 01:19 AM
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Ended: Dec 14, 2014 , 3:10AM
Winning bid: US $790.00