Multi lingual domains

[photomonkey]

Hi, I am just wondering if anybody has any experience with multi lingual domains. I have found one that I fancy, but the owner is asking for way to much IMO.

He wants above mid $,$$$ and I can't see the justification for this price. Had this been the non-multi-lingual I would say that the price was fair.

Anyway, what percentage of today's browsers are able to deal with multilingual domains? I would guess less than 5%, but then even less people would be typing it in directly.

I expect multi lingual domains will not be worth much till a couple of years after MS supports it on its iexplorer.

what are your opinions?

 

[wasistdas]

Well, actually, IDN domains are OK with latinic and umlauts. I see it hard to use them because for some langyages it is needed to switch layout. So, for Russian which is my native, I dont think that domain names with cyrillic are ok.

 

[photomonkey]

The name I am interested in is a Portuguese word, it might be written in Spanish with an "á" as well, though I have not checked it yet.

I just think that currently the value is very limitted, as most 99.99% of internet users would never type the name using "á" they would just use the regular "a".

 

[MadAboutDomains]

By multilingual domains do u mean ones of more than one language "Multi-lingual" EG. Hello-Bonjour.com or one of simply a differnt language?

 

[tsj5j]

Multi-lingual domains are mentioned above, and include special characters in the address that can only be typed in a certain language.

This limits the number of visitors, so I would say it is not very wise to do so.

 

[photomonkey]

By multilingual domains do u mean ones of more than one language "Multi-lingual" EG. Hello-Bonjour.com or one of simply a differnt language?

no, multi-lingual is with non-English caracters like www.øl.com you might not be able to see it though if you are using iexplorer.

Firefox supports it though.

you could also use chinese, arabic, korean characters for that matter. Just mentioning a few character types.

 

[tsj5j]

I get your point, sorry for my mis-interpretation

 

[photomonkey]

No problem!

This is cool my 99th posting!!! the next one will be my 100th.How exciting. :hehe:

 

[tsj5j]

Good for you, but isn't this getting off-topic?

 

[photomonkey]

Good for you, but isn't this getting off-topic?

you are spoiling my fun.

:hehe:

 

[tsj5j]

Sorry, but anyways, I suggest you don't buy it.

 

[Sarcle.com]

Sorry, but anyways, I suggest you don't buy it.

That's funny, giving recommendations without knowing anything about the domain.

First and foremost IDN's have value if they didn't you better tell the people that bought Défiscalisation.com for 18,000 they better get their money back or the people that are buying idn's on banasta to stop.

It is true that most browsers don't support idn's currently. but that should all change with the advent of IE 7.0. Though it will take awhile to impliment the entire system there are already several IDNs that already have great Alexa rankings and Overture w/ext and tons of traffic. So, Idn's while limited presently have proven that they can be successful.

The only thing that stops IDN's from truly taking off now is the browser support and that most countries have local plugins that block this action. IE 7 will change that.

After all you cannot tell me that a person from another country would not or does not type-in their own language.

 

[tsj5j]

I recommend not to buy now, and see how the browsers go first.

Microsoft is known to promise features that does not appear, with Vista the best example.

 

[Virgil]

I've always wanted 'piñata.com'.

 

[photomonkey]

The main problem I see is the lack of support for multi lingual domains from microsoft.

The name I have in mind is incredibaly brandable, but since "everybody" "knows" that you can't type a domain name with an "á" the value is limitted at the-time-being.

I expect this problem to be more or less over in may 2 years time. when, hopefully ie support multi linguals. that is way it is good time to buy them now.

 

[Sarcle.com]

I recommend not to buy now, and see how the browsers go first.

As stated it's already happening. Firefox does...Microsoft is next.

And if you wait and this does take off you will not see these domains anywhere near these prices. It's called investment, not the lottery. And like all investments they have risks, educating yourself and taking risks are a part of it. While this is selfserving it doesn't change the way that it is.

If you doubt check local countries overture scores for keywords they are not in "english". There is demand, and with demand comes necesity. And in that need there comes invention.

I for one have and do invest in these, it doesn't change those facts, that 90% of internet users are not american and do type in there own language.

I expect this problem to be more or less over in may 2 years time. when, hopefully ie support multi linguals. that is way it is good time to buy them now.

Yes, it's investment, and in 2 years they will all be gone and selling for $$$$$$

I've always wanted 'piñata.com'.

That has been registered since 2004.

 

[Monolith]

Heh.

Well, thus far ive registered at least $5000 worth of domains - and thats just for sex-related stuff in simplified chinese. :D

The potential is massive for such a relatively minimal investment.