A couple of weeks ago, Aaron Krawitz and Gary Males wrote three guest posts on my blog about IDN domain names and investing in IDN domain names: Diversify Your Domain Portfolio: How IDNs are Registered in Punycode , Translating Domain Names , and Our Story: Aliasing and Times Square . I followed these articles up with questions that I have about investing in IDNs, and Aaron…
Starting backwards, you’d be stupid to put your name on a company and in a global press release if you didn’t believe in the concept. When we took out an IDNTools ad on the iconic Reuters billboard in Times Square it was a sign of our confidence in what is to come. Similarly, when we issued an international press release (link here) briefly explaining why IDNs will be the next big opportunity, we …
Using Google Translate to translate English to [another language] is the # 1 mistake that all newcomers make. This is a telltale sign of one’s lack of experience. If you crawl back through 5 years of IDNForums threads, you’ll see this mistake time and time again when new members post an appraisal. Mainstream machine translators are often junk for individual words, and a high % of the time they are wrong. Autotranslators are…
You might have heard that people in other countries like to type, search, and create content in their native languages. Investing in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) is a way to capitalize on that trend, and for anyone who wants to diversify a domain portfolio, buying a number of IDNs is a must. I am not fluent in any foreign languages, (though I come close …
When I was writing down a list of a few things I’d like to accomplish in 2010 , learning about the IDN market was one of those things. I know of a few domain investors who invest in IDN domain names, but I don’t know enough about them yet to invest. In fact, as of right now, I don’t own a single…