Comments on: Risks Remain for IDN Investors

By: Normm

Normm — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:52:55 +0000

I believe most if not all of these concerns have now been addressed in the year plus since this article was first written. For example:

http://idnblog.com/2009/12/03/exclusive-qa-chuck-gomes-verisign/

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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:23:56 +0000

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By: 香港旅游

香港旅游 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:59:54 +0000

IDN.com will quit the scene

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Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:46:47 +0000

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By: Petrov

Petrov — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:01:05 +0000

I think in comparison to all the articles filled with inacuraccies I’ve read about IDNs this article is pretty good.
You can’t require everyone to have an intimate knowledge about IDNs.

And no .com is not a “dead meat” outside US. Not everywhere! In some countries – maybe, but a lot of local registries are way too greedy and have prices like 30-40 euros for domain or and the governments use the registries to censor uncomfortable people.

So a lot of foreign webmasters prefer to use .com but that’s not the case everywhere.

If you’re going to invest somewhere you better research before spending a ton.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:09:16 +0000

I think .com is a dead meat outside US.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:36:57 +0000

I noticed during the Olympics the Chinese government was promoting the Olympics via a .cn domain. As well they have stated their preference to the .cn extension. Why type in two languages? ChinesedotChinese is what we are betting on. When you buy a idn.cn you get the English .cn extension and well as the dot.Chinese characters for .cn as well as for .China in Chinese! I think this is the sleeper at the moment. Big potential upside once new standards kick in in a few months and Chinese are able to type in their native language/symbols.

As for other languages same idea. Spanish.Spanish,
Russian.Russian
Italian.Italian
seems like a natural progression.

Cheers!