IDN Domains Talk

A good article & survey conducted by one of our research experts. This was privately done.

http://blog.campaignasia.com/arun-vemuri/why-do-99-japanese-access-a-site-by-searching-keywords-than-typing-urls/

These are the type of case studies marketing companies need. I always write about more studies but experts like Arun in advertising know that this is what clients need & like to see. Arun did this from his own curiousity of the Japanese market & I gave him my insights into prior research I have conducted.

For nonEnglish speaking markets domain marketing articles catering to the advertising world would be beneficial. An article by one of the business development experts like Arun holds weight. This is also why I wish more people who own IDN domains actually would be more open about who they are.

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I’ve decided to trim my portfolio finally.

I think IDNs are a great opportunity. I believe developing & publishing is a better opportunity.
So my goal is to trim anything I won’t develop or not in what I see as the top 10% of the domains I own.
In other words please don’t ask or wonder if I’m dropping Anime or Diamond. That’s not’s happening.

Even if I get to 40% of what I already own extra money can be put into new technologies that didn’t exist when I started to buy & develop IDNs.

I strongly believe that IDNs are good for development. That’s what I want to continue on & trim excess. If domains I drop over time get picked up & sold by someone else. So be it. I still own better that what I’m dropping.

I’m not in a situation where not selling makes a huge dent into my money. I work full time in advertising. I could be spending more on developing other things & hiring part time staff, etc.

If anyone wants a list later leave a message, you might be able to buy for really cheap.

I just noticed this one. Maybe this is why epik took away the public stats.

Hobbies.com just sold for almost $300,000

On this page that I just wrote the last post I noticed that Hobbies.com was an epik site & the week stats are here.
http://domainersadvantage.afternic.com/2010/12/hobbies-com-sells-for-297500-through-afternic-dls/

In one week times the site had about 553 visitors. It made about under $10 for the week. For IDN investors I’d like you to use this as an example that you can’t judge a domain just on traffic. Yes I think it’s a great keyword & worth the cost to the right company.

I have quite a few IDNs already that beat that for weekly traffic, & I’ll have more of them next year.

I was a bit surprised to see this but I guess I will have a permanent mark in domaining history.

Thanks

http://www.thedomains.com/2010/12/06/the-20-most-influential-people-in-the-domain-industry-2/

Vinton Cerf
Former ICANN Chairman/ VP and chief Internet evangelist for Google

Rick Schwartz
CEO, President and Cofounder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Ron Jackson
Editor and Publisher of DNJournal

Monte Cahn
Founder and CEO of DomainSystems

Kevin Ham
The Man Who Owns The Internet

John Postel
Editor of the RFC document series, and for managing the creation and allocation of Top Level Domains and IP addresses in the pre-ICANN era.

Frank Schilling
Pioneering Domain Investor /Sevenmile.com

Adam Dicker
Owner, DNForum.com / Go Daddy VP of Domain Name Aftermarket

Russell C. Horowitz
CEO, Marchex / Chairman of the Board Director

Yun Ye
Elusive and successful domain pioneer

Tim Schumacher
Co-Founder and CEO, Sedo

Tim Berners-Lee
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium/ WWW Inventor

John Berryhill
Patent Attorney and UDRP legal specialist

Chris Chena
Pioneering Spanish domainer

Bob Parsons
CEO, Go Daddy

Craig Nine
Founder, IDN Forums

Sahar Sarid
Co-founder Recall Media Group/ Conceptualist.com

Ron James
Founder, NamePros.com/ Director 1Plus.net

Rick Latona
Founder, DigiPawn

Christmas season is upon us & I’ve been hit by the development bug again.

Over the summer I’ve created a bunch of Shopping sites. I’ve creating a bunch with different themes & little minor changes. By doing this I can see what sticks & what doesn’t. I’ve had major errors with some, I’ve had some great success with others. Lot of people say that they don’t have time for testing but if you can be on the internet for long periods of time you can learn simple development or just hire someone.

I realized that I never did finish the アニメ.com (Anime) site. So I completed an ok first phase. I’ll admit the sites look crappy from a design standpoint the outer wrapper can always change. Christmas is coming & my limited amount of sites has already ranked first page for 2 of the sites for very hard keywords (well one of them anyway) & currently I’m experiencing 3 to 12 orders at least a day.

Using the data I can clearly see trends & plan for 2011. Plus for the domains I started with over the summer they now are a bit more indexed & I can tweak them a bit without being slapped with penalties.

Anyway control your investments…