Olney
12th September 2005, 12:10 AM
There are quite a few things to look at when it comes to parking International Domain names.
Although many US companies say they are Global they are only thinking about the Global English market or Primarily the Global US. This leaves a bit of a gap in services offered by companies for international traffic & especially foreign text. Not French or English but more like Japanese, Russian, Chinese, or Korean.
When it comes to Parking domains the only one so far that I've seen that is converting Punycode is Sedo.
When you park domains it doesn't do you any good at all if you park the domain グラビアアイドル.com (http://www.グラビアアイドル.com) & all you see on the page is the punycode xn--cckag9b4h6bziva.com instead od any reference of グラビアアイドル on the site. Then if your site is only redirected to a parked page this adds for a double whammy because IDNs do have much type in traffic yet but there is a chance to get more traffic if the URL is properly indexed.
Almost all the IDNs that I've seen are not parked anywere at all just placed on some server without a page at all.
If you do park your domain make sure that it accepts non-US traffic because most are only concerned about US traffic. I personally recommend making a 4 page small web site for the site for 5 months until it is fully indexed by Google then park the domain.
Although many US companies say they are Global they are only thinking about the Global English market or Primarily the Global US. This leaves a bit of a gap in services offered by companies for international traffic & especially foreign text. Not French or English but more like Japanese, Russian, Chinese, or Korean.
When it comes to Parking domains the only one so far that I've seen that is converting Punycode is Sedo.
When you park domains it doesn't do you any good at all if you park the domain グラビアアイドル.com (http://www.グラビアアイドル.com) & all you see on the page is the punycode xn--cckag9b4h6bziva.com instead od any reference of グラビアアイドル on the site. Then if your site is only redirected to a parked page this adds for a double whammy because IDNs do have much type in traffic yet but there is a chance to get more traffic if the URL is properly indexed.
Almost all the IDNs that I've seen are not parked anywere at all just placed on some server without a page at all.
If you do park your domain make sure that it accepts non-US traffic because most are only concerned about US traffic. I personally recommend making a 4 page small web site for the site for 5 months until it is fully indexed by Google then park the domain.