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		<title>A nite with Tina Dam from ICANN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IDNForums members had a very big surprise when Tina Dam the director of ICANN&#8217;s IDN program joined to graciously answer questions by members.
http://www.idnforums.com/forums/13914-welcome-tina.html
One of the biggest concerns to IDN members is why does the media portray IDN Domains as coming out in 2008 when together IDNF members have at least hundreds of thousands of IDN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/32</link>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s Site Expolorer becomes IDN Domain compatible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo&#8217;s site explorer since about March had a bug where you couldn&#8217;t explore sites developped with IDN domains nor could you even add them to your site list. The intial workaround was just to include your site with punycode instead of using the native unicode characters.
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ 
Since the reason update the way to input an IDN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/31</link>
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		<title>Google Webmaster Central becomes IDN domain compatible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this on IDN Forums that Google Webmaster Central added IDN compatibility.
The main portion most users will be thankful it became IDN compatible is the Google sitemaps. It&#8217;s so much better for me to easily be able to see the native Japanese characters in my domains than to see punycode.
 From Google&#8217;s blog
I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/30</link>
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		<title>Doubling Up IDNs &#038; normal domains (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I initially started buying domains to develop only. Initially I also registered domains hoping to create Japanese sites. My initial inspiration was just to build until I heard about the sale of celebrity.com for $1,000,000. I immediately thought of buying it in Japanese &#038; registered geinojin.com &#038; geinokai.com. The problem that I faced was that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/29</link>
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		<title>Japan the hidden society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IDN Domain is not so transparent to westerners (non Japanese). I think it really reflects how Japan is as a whole society. It&#8217;s actually pretty hidden right now (from westerners). I have my reasons for saying that.
I remember when I first came to Tokyo 12 years ago &#038; heard about this area of Tokyo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/28</link>
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		<title>Lolipop Web Hostings offers IDN.jp at less than $4 a pop!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Japanese IDN market I like to look at it from a local user point of view. In my prior posts about what extensions where available I looked at some of the domain registration companies &#038; what they offer. (Of The Domain Registries in Japan what do they offer in terms of IDN Domains?)This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/27</link>
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		<title>Japanese business&#8217;s wising up a bit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently registered a few good product names on May 1st in IDN.jp form. There was a close equivalent that starting showing up in Yahoo! Japan&#8217;s SERPs the same week. After seeing this one of the big competitors for this company immediately registered about 30 related domains to their products.
Right now in Japan it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/26</link>
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		<title>Nissan&#8217;s new TV commercial IDN campaign 艶やかコンパクト.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nissan has launched
a new TV campaign here in Japan &#038; has chosen to use an IDN for users to access the site. Currently since they know Japanese users will search for the domain IDN domains plus EXT always come first on Yahoo! Japan
艶やかコンパクト.com

This is a first &#038; this year companies started trying to add a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/25</link>
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		<title>москва.com Russian IDN Domain Moscow sells for $16,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a plenty healthy discussion about this one on IDNForums.com. The Russia domain for Moscow changed hands &#038; the price was a modest $16,000. The domain was sold on Afternic &#038; it introduces a new aspect of sales not happening on IDNF or even by members of IDNF.
I also wonder who the actual buyer was. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.idntalk.com/archives/23</link>
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		<title>Someone most of told them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t reg too many domains lately, but I do browse a lot. I&#8217;m noticing a big increase in the number of Japanese registering IDN domains in the jp extension since December.
This chart shows the amounts of domains registered
http://jpinfo.jp/stats/domains.html 
One of the differences that I&#8217;m also noticing is Japanese are buying &#038; developing. I credit this [...]]]></description>
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