Fearing that you're going to lose traffic is like locking yourself up in a closet to prevent getting hit by a car, struck by lightening, bit by a mosquito, etc.

I understand what you're trying to say with the whole accent situation, but Phio is right. With IDNs you are targeting a specific audience that have these accents on their keyboards.

If I develop a Chinese IDN I care not if someone in America can access it. As awful as that sounds, do some research and you'll know what I mean. I sort of see IDNs as .ccTLDs on super-steroids. You have the brandability of .com/.net (globally known extensions) and an audience that can actually SPELL the word.


I can keep going on and explain the logic behind IDNs and the amount of growth generic IDN holders have experienced in the last year, but I guess it's just something you have to experience.... sort of like when the owners of sex.com, porn.com, travel.com all started experiencing growth with their generic English ASCII domains.