.コム - We must be somewhere over the rainbow!

[idnowner]

General Availability, that is.

[clipper]

Yawn... On to Korean.

[Drewbert]

Japan is sitting on 8% of registrations at present. Was around 6% at start of landrush IIRC. Hopefully it'll increase now that GA is underway.

Dynadot dropped the landrush extortion fee bang on 0000 UTC.

[idn]

Develop .com forward .コム is what I'm thinking. When matched.

[Drewbert]

Japan now responsible for 19% of all registrations. That's a good sign. Also a sign that landrush wasn't popular, and just serves to delay uptake.

[clipper]

Japan now responsible for 19% of all registrations. That's a good sign. Also a sign that landrush wasn't popular, and just serves to delay uptake.

Promising, but they're only 380jpy at Onamae:
http://www.onamae.com/newgtld/japanesecom/?btn_id=02_general_20160613

Seems like a one-day promotional pricing.

EDIT: I do really like the fact that it's listed third on their renewal fees page, right after .com and .net:
http://www.onamae.com/service/d-price/renew_price.html

[Drewbert]

EDIT: I do really like the fact that it's listed third on their renewal fees page, right after .com and .net:
http://www.onamae.com/service/d-price/renew_price.html

Yes, that IS good to see.

Also, further down that page they're selling subdomains off 日本語.コム

[Rubber Duck]

93.5% of all registrations for 13/6/2016 were from Japanese Registary. This is 418 in total. US registered only 12 and Hong Kong 8. These could easily have been Japanese using foreign registries.

GMO Internet accounted for 424 or 94.9%. I would guess that represents Japanese buyers.

The real question is whether momentum is gaining or whether this is just a flash in the pan?

[Rubber Duck]

GMO Who?

After Berkens:

"GMO Registry, Inc. paid $41,501,000 in an ICANN auction for a similar new gTLD .Shop"

That's Who!!!

[Drewbert]

Another 100+ registrations via GMO. Japanese residents now sitting at 21%.

[Drewbert]

Now 27% - the only bit of good news so far IMHO.

[clipper]

I've learned pessimism the hard way... the 380JPY (~$3.50) sale is still going on:

http://www.onamae.com/newgtld/japanesecom/?btn_id=02_japanesecom_20160615

Note that two days ago (on the first day of the launch) there was a countdown timer and when I posted in this thread there were only nine hours left on the sale. The countdown timer is now gone, but the sale continues.

GMO is selling the shit out of these, and we can only hope (possibly against our wiser judgement) that the sale leads to long term sites and type-in traffic and not just spammers buying the discount domains to destroy.

[clipper]

Still, Google's dot-everyone -- which was the first Japanese TLD -- never hit 4,000 registrations.

Promising.

[Drewbert]

Now 31%.

[clipper]

36% today, and GMO is now the top registrar.

[Drewbert]

40%. Slowly climbing.

[idnowner]

40%. Slowly climbing.

Japan, now at 41.2 %

MILESTONE: Japan, NOW, has the most .コム registrations of all countries.

[bwhhisc]

Japan, now at 41.2 %

MILESTONE: Japan, NOW, has the most .コム registrations of all countries.

Would like to think they are going to get developed....but gotta think most of these are probably the local 'domainers'.

Is there a way to see how many different who.is there are for the registrations?

[Rubber Duck]

Japan, now at 41.2 %

MILESTONE: Japan, NOW, has the most .コム registrations of all countries.

The real Milestone was my first click and 5 cents.

[Drewbert]

And now it's been invaded by religious fanatics...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:.コム

[mulligan]

Someone has a bit of time on their hands!

And now it's been invaded by religious fanatics...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:.コム

[clipper]

Those Koran pages were the first indexed. Been up for weeks.:eek:

[Drewbert]

632 views at ParkingCrew since they went live. Only 3 clicks. There's a conversion problem.

Bring back NameDrive!

[IDN Domains]

632 views at ParkingCrew since they went live.

how many domains generated these views?

[Drewbert]

About 120?

[idnowner]

WTF Happened?

Did Japan DROP hundreds of IDNs?

Recently Japan was leading the US in Registrations.

Now this?...

United States 2,117 51.5%
Japan 920 22.4%


https://namestat.org/xn--tckwe

[Drewbert]

What really pisses me off is Verisign is willing to drop $125 million on .web, which will take them years to recover, yet with IDN's they screw their present customers, not just charging them for the .idn equivalent but screwing them even more with "premium" fees.

WTF, Verisign!

[clipper]

WTF Happened?

Did Japan DROP hundreds of IDNs?

Recently Japan was leading the US in Registrations.

Now this?...

United States 2,117 51.5%
Japan 920 22.4%


https://namestat.org/xn--tckwe

Something's wrong with those stats... GMO Internet is still #1 with 2,900 regs. GMO didn't become #1 until GA in Japan and they sold them at slashed prices.

The vast majority of GMO's regs were from Japan. Perhaps GMO is using a US vendor for whois privacy or something making it look like those are from the US?

EDIT: There are about 2500 domains missing from the GEO count. There are 6,119 domains in the Registrar table, but only 4,119 in the registrar table. From the registrar table we can see that most of those are from Japan.

EDIT 2: This solves it (at the bottom of the GEO table):
Private/Proxy Whois 2,510

[123]

What really pisses me off is Verisign is willing to drop $125 million on .web, which will take them years to recover, yet with IDN's they screw their present customers, not just charging them for the .idn equivalent but screwing them even more with "premium" fees.

WTF, Verisign!

I think some members had estimated that Verisign had earned close to $100 million from IDNs over the past 15 years. Apparently they decided to invest their IDN gains in .web :eek:

[Wot]

IDN.Web looks like the way to go! :-p

[alibuba]

anyone have a link to the dates of the schedule for japan .com idn general availability?

just want to recap on when these are really out and available, something we've been waiting for a good quarter of our lives for some.

[123]

anyone have a link to the dates of the schedule for japan .com idn general availability?

just want to recap on when these are really out and available, something we've been waiting for a good quarter of our lives for some.

it is already in GA!

[Rubber Duck]

anyone have a link to the dates of the schedule for japan .com idn general availability?

just want to recap on when these are really out and available, something we've been waiting for a good quarter of our lives for some.

Perhaps not the big event it was cracked up to be.

Maybe IDN.com is the real deal after all.

[alibuba]

it is already in GA!


Your kidding, this is what some waited for all this time

So whats up with japan then. Where is the success in this? Any behind the scenes stuff going on?

[Rubber Duck]

Your kidding, this is what some waited for all this time

So whats up with japan then. Where is the success in this? Any behind the scenes stuff going on?

If anything Korea and China are lining up to be even more of a train crash.

We have one Chinese domain that in my opinion probably ain't worth a lot but my Partner's opinion differs. Beyond that I don't expect to be investing in Chinese IDN.IDN. For me supremacy of Chinese IDN.com is a No Brainer.

After that, well who knows?

How many times are VeriSign prepared to rerun this train crash?

[alibuba]

so we are approaching 7,000 regs so far for .コム

looks like its steadily going up. Hopefully verisign or some larger backing gives more push in this.

[mxfusion]

how many domains generated these views?


More importantly, how many of the views are from Japan. For my own, only 10% is from Japan.

[123]

More importantly, how many of the views are from Japan. For my own, only 10% is from Japan.

probably mostly bot visits then...

[123]

How many times are VeriSign prepared to rerun this train crash?

Why train crash? Everything proceeding as intended by ICANN :rolleyes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/03/extraordinary_verdict_against_icann/

[mxfusion]

probably mostly bot visits then...


Maybe someone saw the complains on this forum about the lack of traffic and decided to send us some "traffic". :lol: