IDN Talk

One of the things that happens, can happen, & will happen is mistaken IDN registrations.
A lot of times we see what see like prime terms being sold for cheap in various languages.

For example you will see something like

“Cheap Hotels” in Russian or other languages.
You buy it, hold it for a few years then show the first Russian friend you have that comes over your house.
Only to find out there are 3 other terms better than yours or worse yet it’s a common misspelling.
I’ve bought at least two of these & others have two.

This is one thing that keeps many investors out of the IDN market.
I have lots of domains so all my regs are good is not enough.
One question that should be asked up front by buyers is
“Is this the main term?”
I don’t think that I asked that for my nonJapanese purchases years ago.
Only recently looking through my portfolio did I notice this.

Since I am only a bystander in the IDN market. I like to look at it from a unbiased standpoint.
Only info I can give is for the market of Japan where I am an advertising professional.

Good luck & happy hunting.

Both: IDN & ASCII

One of the reasons why I chose investing in IDN. jp is to have the more likely chance of getting both.
Such a simple concept. Both IDN & ASCII version of a domain.
I tried to inform IDN investors before that this is a great concept.
If a company is willing to buy an IDN imagine if you had both versions?
This doesn’t work for every domain but there are some terms in languages where there would only be one way to write it.

The recent sale on DNJournal for the German domain actually proved this.
Many people are just IDNs or just ASCII domains but it would be good to realize having both would be great.

With IDNs I’m on hold mode at the moment & just giving advance to global clients & ad agency staff worldwide.

For the Japanese markets I only have a few
but domains like

LosAngeles.jp
NewYorkCity.jp
HokenHikaku.jp
Rome.jp

etc make sense in both versions.