Chinese IDNs and pinyin names

[JAugusto]

Everyone talks these days about China grow and great future business opportunities.
So, Chinese IDNs are a must. Or are they?!

I have been talking to a friend that says people in China use regular keyboards and thus the idn Chinese characters domains have a very limited appeal. Indeed I have not see yet big money being put on any Asian idn domain, like I have seen for German or Portuguese domains.

So, my question is, what do you think?

Also, are “pinyin” (regular characters representing the Chinese ones) names any good to register? How, where and what are they used for, anyway?!

 

[touchring]

What's the matter with 北京.cn? Filenames on Chinese Windows are also half chinese half latin, e.g. 文本文件.txt. Anyway, they are already in talks with international domain organizations on 北京.中国.