ZuraX said:
But how much of that traffic is wha the parking sites are looking for?
Man, there are always weaks and strenghts. I ensure you that for people using ł, ś, ć, etc. in their native languages everyday, everytime, in speaking and writing - the words without country characters look strange alittle. And although we used to type surrogates of these signs (s instead of ś, n instead of ń, etc.), there will be always a tendency to type country characters in domain names.
And I ensure you, whatever the parking page looks like (or if it is PPC program like Sedo or Adsense) there always be a traffic for such domains and click rate of some kind (if 13% or 23% - does not matter). I know it because I experienced it. Of course if IDN name is nonsense, words are not used often enough or just single letters - the traffic does not exist at all.
How much the traffic is? For my meaningful 3 IDNs (having 80 Ovt. with ext. and higher), the traffic is between 2-4 thousands of visits/months each. Enough to get good revenue.
And I dont wonder most english people do not feel the difference between words: móżdżek and mozdzek for example. They dont have country specific letters so their language awareness is different.
And furthermore they usually dont know how to search for these meaningful IDN domains. Just install some keyboard characters other then english, go and find words in Turkish, Chinese, Greek, Russian and look what are the Overture results
