After doing some tremendous reading and searching on .de domains I finally have a clue as to why the Bido buyer is investing in .de names.
I had to dig deep into DN journal articles and several articles from domain guru's so for those of you who are puzzled and claim German English.de domains are a waste you be surprised. First of all lets deal with the facts, if you really look closely at .de sales you will notice alot of english names sell for over $1,000 and infact the highest de domains sales are all in english Shopping.de, news,de auto,de casino.de etc.
I say to myself right these are generic domains, but why will a company want to dish out over 2 million dollars for shopping.de
I started to dig out further the clue has always been ontop of my browser.
when you visit a website in German notice you always get a prompt that says hey buddy do you want me to translate? To understand the basic fundamentals of keywords, word translation and how google have been ranking websites lately I advise you to research this part on your own. Google doesn't really care about english names in de. it can be transalted for eg even if german users type in a word in german ..english websites also popup, I mean it makes sense as long as what they are searching for is relevant to a website it do'sent matter if the website is in english. Why .de you might ask, simple the German economy is massive. I understand somewhat why he is buying these names, he is obviously stockpiling for future use. Remember english is also a universal Language at least almost everyone understands the basics, yup even the German get the basics.
This is my take on it so far. He is not a new domainer either from what I have found. He has been in the game before i started teething.lol jokes
will dig some more.