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Old 05-26-2008, 07:51 AM   · #7
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Originally Posted by Dean26
Maybe not a good idea to invest in IDNs now with IDN extensions coming soon. I think Russia will have the first one.



You haven't a clue what you are talking about. I agreed to sell three Russian dot com for low to mid xx,xxx yesterday. That will probably be my last sale for a while, maybe the last this year, perhaps even ever. My Accountant is telling us that the end of year tax bill is going to be way down, because we didn't sell so much last year, so the pressure is off to make out in the Aftermarket. Lots of these domains are already paying for themselves just parked up. It won't be long before they are paying for Villas and Yachts as well.

What you really need to understand is that as these new extension go through their launch cycle, the only thing of any value you will be able to buy is a dot Com and perhaps a dot Net.

Originally Posted by co2
I am a little lost, I want to reg some IDN. So if I want to buy some Indian or Chinese domains, what language do you reg in. I ask this as most of the population in these two countries, do not speak English. Or do you have to reg in local dialect, and English ?.



Forget English. The only person that will tell you that English is going to be important in China is Rick Schwartz, and trust me hasn't a clue about Asia.

English may have a role in India. 30% of those using the Internet at the moment prefer to use English, but those coming online now are almost entirely local language speakers. Of course there is not just Hindi, but this is clearly the biggest of the local languages, but Urdu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Telugu are all going to be very signficant markets. The problem is with investing in English is that not only are they not IDN, there won't be much left at all. As for IDN there has only been limited speculation in Indic Languages so far, so there is plenty of opportunity left. If you try Simplified Chinese by contrast you will find that the cupboard is already bare.


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