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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

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.

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.

You did a great job of leaving the cupboards empty btw! ahem... compliments to you on your game plan: buying excellent quality .com in other languages. brilliant. An important thing about .com is that even though it is not an IDN.IDN, like the presumed .рф for Russia et al, it (.com) has the international flavor (flavour) needed to give it strength for the long run. In today's world, corporations tend to see their future as international players in the market. And while I *do* believe that IDN tld will be valuable and will appreciate *considerably* in the .рф and other variant, I also think that quality .com addresses will be the preferred tld/extension for large international corporations and name services for many years to come. This format tends to accentuate the fact that the IDN portion, the Language, is used in many categories that unite us, like commercial transactions (.com). So basically I see the strong trend towards internationalization as strengthening the .com brand, even with IDN... just wish I had started sooner, when there was at least something like a can of beans left in those cupboards that you "early IDN'ers" picked clean.