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JPRS only company to submit application for .日本

August 18, 2010 By Olney 2 Comments

http://jidnc.jp/?p=690

After reading a bit more I went to the homepage of the  Japan Internet Domain Name Council.

I read a post that states the deadline for the application was the 16th & after looking again & noticed it showed the number of applicants.

応募者数　　：　１社

Number of Applicants: 1 Company

I thought I read it wrong or something. This is great hopefully they quickly launch & give me my

ダイヤモンド.日本 (Diamond)
格安旅行.日本 (Cheap Travel)
格安ホテル.日本 (Cheap Hotels)

& I thought this day sucked.

*** Update after thinking about it. If only one company applied the company that everyone else thought would get it anyway. Then why did they make us wait this long? They could have just cut to the chase.

Let’s see who’s domains become examples for dot Nihon. I might try to pretty a few up.

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JPRS submits it’s domestic application to manage .日本

August 18, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

I just saw that JPRS has submitted it’s application to manage the IDN ccTLD .日本

I doubt that anyone would rival their request to mange the IDN extension. They already manage .jp extension & most likely already have a set promotional plan in place for the launch of this finally. There was actually a domain related meeting this month & I guess I could attend but I’d probably fall asleep during it.

Here’s the links to the over 100 page PDF application.

JPRS Page
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/100817.html

Direct Link to PDF
http://jprs.co.jp/topics/2010/100817/nippon_shinseisyo.pdf

Link To Japan Internet Council Page
http://jidnc.jp/?p=533

I expect new money to come in after .日本 they pushed in advertising a while back but the things they stumbled & fell on wasn’t their fault.

********UPDATE********
Seems like JPRS was the only company to even submit an application!!!!

http://jidnc.jp/?p=690

Congrats JPRS you’ve Won .日本！！！！

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Aside from JPRS who could run .日本 ?

August 7, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

I don’t post much about .日本 mainly because there’s a lot that lead up to finally getting there & JPRS has been burnt in the past by promoting IDNs.

I just wonder looking through one of the JPRS sites & seeing that there is a deadline until the 15th of the most to try to run the .日本 registrations.

There’s only 2 companies I could think of remotely interested in this & big enough to do it right. That’s JPRS or GMO. Personally I don’t “think” GMO would run it because of the hassle factor. Many companies are now recovering from last years economic downfall & still want to be a bit streamlined. Either way they make money if JPRS gets it & starts promoting .日本.

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Site de-indexed from Yahoo Japan? don’t sweat it..

August 1, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

As domain owners we sometimes are in disillusion that a parking page is a website. It’s not. Sometime or highly rich keyword domains shows up in the top of the top of the Yahoo Japan search results & usually some company that wants to rank for that keyword complains & wham your parking page is de-indexed.

Have you ever looked through your parking stats from 2 years ago & noticed certain domains had some traffic & now have none? You might be the victim of being de-indexed. I have at least 10 or so domains that someone named their site exactly or almost exactly the same as my IDN domain. Both .jp & .com this has happened. So one which is travel related there is a company who has the ASCII (romaji version) & promotes it a quite a lot. When I looked at my parking stats it had so little traffic. Then I tried to search for it on Yahoo. It didn’t show up.

Please note if you search for your IDN with EXT & it doesn’t come up first most likely you have been de-indexed.

So what do you?

Deindexing on Yahoo Japan is not permanent. You can easily get reincluded in about a month. When I noticed my domain was gone this is what I did.

1. Move it to another server, anywhere.
2. Put up a few pages of content or in my case & uploaded an empty wordpress blog.
3. Put a few links pointing to it.
4. In about one month your site will be back in Yahoo Japan’s index.

You can switch back to parking if you want after that as your complainer may not be aware of your site being back up so soon.

I want to explain the logic behind it.

Parking Pages are getting more popular in Japan Yahoo can easily determine to de-index it as it’s NOT a website.

An unfinished or bad looking website cannot be easily de indexed by complaint’s because it still in a website. Yahoo staff doesn’t have the right to de index a web site because it looks bad, or it’s not finished unless lots of sites start overtaking the search results like this.

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.jp Registry having issue

July 31, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

I usually renew my domains on the last day. Especially my .jps Anyone with .jps expiring this month please start to renew now. It literally took me 10 minutes for each domain to renew. There are connection errors so the longer you wait there’s a possibility that there could be more errors. I don’t want any of you guys to loose domains you’d like to keep. So renew now.

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Breaking News Yahoo Japan to outsource Search to Google

July 27, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

I have to admit I thought this was a media joke. After struggling using Yahoo’s technology for year’s Yahoo Japan made the announcement to switch search over to Google.

http://pr.yahoo.co.jp/release/2010/0727a.html

I’ll try to write an update later on what this means to you. Possibly with more advertisers on Google’s system using adsense will make you way more money than before. Parking revenue in Japan will also increase. Way to go Wixi. There still are questions like will it be one platform for advertisers or not. So many things are unclear. I’m sure to have to be the one writing what this means to the Japanese market for our agencies.

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My view on .Co

July 24, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

.Co has just opened registration for the general public. While writing this blog & sometimes looking at domaining blogs now I realize I one strange thing.

As with IDNs I believe an extension or a domain type can be popular with usage. I do not think that 100,000 new domains going straight to parking makes a domain extension successful. I’ve read that the company went all out to promote this extension. I think otherwise.

In my previous post I wrote wouldn’t it be wonderful if a domain extension was created & was marketed to people to use them? Like .canon being tied to an online service.

Wouldn’t it make sense if the .Co team actually wanted the domains to be used they would market it to people who really develop sites, or do web marketing. If you turn off the domaining part of your brain & look at marketing blogs, agency blogs I don’t see a single blurb or dollar spent on advertising. I do see they mainly covered every site domainers go to. This gives the impression that they massively promoted the extension.

Only going to domainers looks like it will make .Co another dot Mobi to be. Time will tell but I don’t see this as any major extension “yet”. There are services that I really love, some I dislike but I don’t want to influence anyone to invest in anything I believe they will eventually loose money on.

I would have been convinced if they even had ads on SitePoint.com, SERoundtable.com, or even digitalpoint.

Even with IDNs I personally don’t think my time online is as valuable as the time I spend going out with people working in Ad Agencies to talk about domain marketing.

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.Canon why are people against it?

July 23, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

I read a post on Domain Name Wire about .Canon

http://domainnamewire.com/2010/07/21/jpnic-argues-companies-shouldnt-be-able-to-get-corporate-top-level-domain-names/

I truly don’t know what can be wrong with a company making innovative uses for domains.
.travel, .mobi, .whatever they basically didn’t have the strong costumer base of users. For me it’s so good to see some team in Japan realizing we don’t need to use current technology like everyone, let’s tie the canon brand to their owned branded domain. They have millions of customers worldwide & this could easily be a good way of offering photo/video hosting plans.

Yes they can do it with the corporate site technically but, it’s the Global Corporate site. You can’t have user generated content taking over a Global Corporate site. This plan is just like Apple’s .mac if the option was available I’m sure the initial iTools would have really been YourName.Mac think about it.

Japan leads in having mobile business structures, & was one of the first ccTLDs to want & see the use of IDNs (unfortunately they didn’t realize Microsoft would take 6 years to update it’s browser). Anyway this is a new innovative way of using domains that’s cost efficient.

This was my original thoughts on the matter.
http://www.idntalk.com/domain-names/gmo-canon-going-forward-with-canon.html

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Is .co going to be IDN Compatible?

July 21, 2010 By Olney 1 Comment

I was looking through the .co registry to see what my clients have registered for their brands & noticed their is an IDN converter. To feed by curiosity it did not convert anything Japanese. Please, Please, Please let one of you folk develop a highly well defined site with the term for Anime in Japanese & market it to Japanese. I’ll even give you updated Overture stats for the term.

Oh & my clients did get their brand names. With this I realize new extensions just cost brands more per year. Let’s maximize .net, .org, even .us before thinking we NEED a new extension.

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Where dost thou traffic come from Part 2

July 20, 2010 By Olney Leave a Comment

Where dost thou traffic come from Part 2

In part 1 of knowing where your traffic comes from I stated that I have one domain that was getting tons of direct traffic with no clicks at all.
http://www.idntalk.com/domain-names/where-dost-thou-idn-traffic-come-from.html

That domain was parked & all the traffic was suddenly coming since end of February. Currently domains is something that is peaking the interest of tech writers. Some good, most bad because people who don’t own companies believe that everything can be accessed by search. I run search campaigns all day long & know for a fact that if Japanese people accessed sites directly a companies SEM cost would actually go down.

Anyhoot (I know it’s not a word) I discovered that a blogger used my domain as an IDN example in his post & that brought about many people accessing the domain.

So adding to knowing where your traffic comes from

Somebody wrote an article & used your domain as an example.
Now I believe I can pinpoint exactly where my traffic is coming from on my top 20 Japanese domains with traffic.

On another note I see one of my dot coms has gotten up to about 70 uniques a day.
Unbelievable but I count at least 5 sites, yes 5 (maybe more but I stopped looking) sites that named their site after my domain.
One of them named their site closely related to mine & is often referred to as my domain name by people who link to it.
The other 4 sites use my name exactly. Even though the url is completely different.
It’s mind boggling.

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