NP41215

I've some Kanji IDNs, which means that their names are readable and understandable to both Chinese and Japanese and carry the same meaning.

Given the Great FireWall in China, I wonder if there are Japan-based parking services that can handle purely Kanji IDNs.

Any ideas or suggestions?

thefabfive

I'm not aware of any parking service in Japan. But even if there was their servers could very well be blocked by the Great Firewall. Speculation suggests that the reason Namedrive and Sedo servers are blocked is that they serve up gambling and adult ads in some instances. They could be other reasons as well however. Any Japanese parking service would undoubtedly offer gambling and adult related ads as well and would likely get blocked.
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The best long term solution, IMO, would be Namedrive. There pages display content based on the country of origin of the visitor. This would work very well for domains that have meaning in both Japanese and Chinese. Chinese visitors see Chinese specific ads and text and Japanese see Japanese specific content. I believe Namedrive is working on the Great Firewall problem but I don't know what the real issues. It's been a while since we've heard from Ed of Namedrive - maybe drop him an email and see if there's any progress.

I doubt Sedo will do a whole lot until there's serious money to be made. Which hopefully isn't too far away.

NP41215

Thanks for the reply. The reason I was looking for parking services catering to Kanji dot-coms is that I wanted to catch some Japanese ad revenues.

In other words, I was looking at the case of giving up on Chinese Ad revenues due to its Great FireWall.

Come to think about it, and I wonder whether anyone knows how it works: What happens if you have Kanji dot-coms and you use two sets of name servers. One set corresponds to a Japan-based parking service that serves Kanji (or Chinese, as they would be the same in this case) ads as well as Japanese ads on the landing page. The other set of name servers correspond to those of the China-based parking service company whose servers are located in China and therefore not blocked by the Great FireWall, serving up Chinese-originated Ads on the landing page.
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As long as you don't get 404 pages in this case (I hope so, does anyone know), then you would have a pretty happy situation. Those outside of China would land on the Japan-originated landing pages for the domain, whereas those inside China would see the China-originated landing pages for the domain. Of course, the ads would be different, as the advertisers would be Japanese and Chinese, mostly.

Any ideas and conjectures?

rhys

[QUOTE=NP41215]Thanks for the reply. The reason I was looking for parking services catering to Kanji dot-coms is that I wanted to catch some Japanese ad revenues.

In other words, I was looking at the case of giving up on Chinese Ad revenues due to its Great FireWall.

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I think that namedrive is the only parking service out there that is fully compatible with IDNs and in the case of Japan, serves up Japanese google ads to viewers in Japan. Plus with an english interface makes it easy to manage. What are called parking services in Japan are not parking services as we know them here. It's more like they throw up "under construction" pages on your domains and no monetization. It's probably because type-in traffic does not exist on ASCII domains in Japan so parking service providers were never needed. This will change in the next couple of years post IE7 but for now you should use namedrive. My average ppc on Japanes domains is about .30 cents. Better than my english ascii sites!

Rubber Duck

It is a dilemna.

On one hand you have better traffic in China but only if you park with Dopa.com. On the other you have much higher PPC in Japan. The 30 cents quoted above is probably a bit on the low side. China is typically 2-3 cents.

I would treat them as Japanese for the time being and park them at Namedrive, but the situation may change back in China's favour later.