Not invested in cctlds?

[wot]

http://www.domainnamenews.com/domain-sales/cctld-portfolio-sold-for-31m/4412

The buyer, DomCollect Worldwide Intellectual Property AG, a Swiss based company, is 100% owned by the broker, Sedo and holds over 100,000 domains in its domain portfolio.

Can't be more than one year since I asked Sedo about brokering/buying cctld portfolios- not our business they said. :hi:

 

[gavinp]

be nice to see full list
nice bulk sale

prices always higher when 2 major players trade

 

[Traveler]

Looks like all .de names, man I wish I could speak German. I would love to be in that market. I'm a huge fan of cctlds but sadly my portfolio does not reflect that. If only I spoke more languages!

 

[wot]

Looks like all .de names, man I wish I could speak German. I would love to be in that market. I'm a huge fan of cctlds but sadly my portfolio does not reflect that. If only I spoke more languages!

A large proportion of the names are actually in English with the .de cctld.

 

[mjbenterprises]

Yes, a LOT of English words work with the .de ext... Words that are generally known by everyone are the most desirable(ex, buy, free, quotes, rates, etc)...de is a very strong ext in both english and german...

A large proportion of the names are actually in English with the .de cctld.

 

[Traveler]

A large proportion of the names are actually in English with the .de cctld.

I guess that makes sense. Pretty much every German I have ever met speaks English pretty darn well. Not to mention that English has borrowed many words from German.

 

[DomainLobe]

English still works with many extensions and seems to retain it's status as the language of (global) trade.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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I regged one .de back in 2007 (when I didn't understand that search engines were country specific), but it's in English.

Silly me.

I still have it, but I doubt if any German would want it.

I have a few .me (English) and fewer .tv--these ccTLDs seem to have applications beyond their host countries.

I think ccTLDs are okay if you know what you are doing--translations are not usually "direct," and the worst thing one could do is reg a name that seems innocuous, only for it to be an "insult" to the people of the host country.

Example: in Croatian, the words for "writer" and "pisser" are but one letter difference.

A few times, I have introduced myself as a pis...well, you get the idea.




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[wot]

English still works with many extensions and seems to retain it's status as the language of (global) trade.

English a global web language yes- but until recently there has been no alternative, idns are going to be changing a lot of that in the not too distant future.

 

[shockie]

English still works with many extensions and seems to retain it's status as the language of (global) trade.

English a global web language yes- but until recently there has been no alternative, idns are going to be changing a lot of that in the not too distant future.

english isn't just the global web language, it's been the language of business even prior to the widespread use of the internet. i'm not sure what you mean by "no alternative," as other languages have been around for quite some time.

let us know when idns.de's start selling. :bingo:

 

[wot]

english isn't just the global web language, it's been the language of business even prior to the widespread use of the internet. i'm not sure what you mean by "no alternative," as other languages have been around for quite some time.

let us know when idns.de's start selling. :bingo:

I will start with these couple, I will leave it to others to educate you more.

übersetzer.de $23,672

Städte.de (IDN) ("cities" in German), €11100

"No alternative" - simply means that Chinese could not type Chinese in their browser, Japanese could not type Japanese in to their browser- get the idea now :?

 

[szury]

I speak 6 languages and I am not a cctld fan

 

[snicksnack]

english isn't just the global web language, it's been the language of business even prior to the widespread use of the internet. i'm not sure what you mean by "no alternative," as other languages have been around for quite some time.

let us know when idns.de's start selling. :bingo:

many IDNs get decent traffic. I own some german IDNs and chinese IDNs and they have good type in traffic.

 

[Coopey]

i'm not sure what you mean by "no alternative," as other languages have been around for quite some time.

I think wot means no alternative to Roman (script) as IDN is only just starting to catch on...

edit: should of read the posts below too

 

[ssamriga]

IDNs have been around for a while already, but aren't too popular.
I don't have any IDNs and only one cctld- I got the last freely available LL.lv domain

 

[ajkula]

Example: in Croatian, the words for "writer" and "pisser" are but one letter difference.

Sorry for offtopic, but there are two letters difference ( s, c -> š, č )
ccTLDs are great investment imho, but only if you know what are you doing.

 

[shockie]

übersetzer.de $23,672
Städte.de (IDN) ("cities" in German), €11100

perhaps i should have been more clear. i was referring to non-german idn.de's selling. clearly those would fit the extension, but the only other language that really sells with a non-matching cctld is english.

take for example .us and .cn. whereas englishword.cn may sell for quite a chunk of change, chineseidn.us would probably be next to worthless (even though .us's may be worth more than .cn's).

"No alternative" - simply means that Chinese could not type Chinese in their browser, Japanese could not type Japanese in to their browser- get the idea now :?

oh i get it... so you think that more keyboards with idn keys will make foreign languages surpass english in being the global language of business?

 

[wot]

:hehe:

:hi: