IDN market – it IS for real
Posted in IDN, domain names on May 29th, 2006 by mdwThe IDN market that did not seem to exist last year is seeing activity every week now. Some sales from this past couple of weeks:
???.com (Nagaski in Japanese) for $2,300
Arbeitsverträge.de (Working Contracts – German) for $3,153
??.com (Home improvement Chinese) for $12,000
Más.com (more in spanish) for $3500
?.com (hair in Japanese and Chinese) for $6000
Natación.com (swimming in spanish) for $5729
These and others are recorded (with the story reference) here: http://www.idntools.net/idnsales.php
I notice someone bought ??.com for $600 even though its not really in any language?? Makes you wonder, huh….
Also it’s been reported in IDNforums.com that Yahoo! Japan began returning IDN results in their search engine this week. A Japanese blogger reported searching for Shibuya station ??? and the IDN version.com pops up as #3 in the results…. a harbinger of things to come I’d say.
