IDNBlog recently had the chance to sit down with Ed Russell, the President of NameDrive along with Steve Karnas, the Co-Founder of Wixi. They explain their bullishness on IDNs, their particular enthusiasm for Japanese IDNs, and their new parking platform, which is tailor-made for Japanese IDN owners. Q: What is your role at NameDrive? ND: [...]
Importance of the Domain Landscape in China China has over 1.3 billion people and the Chinese language is widespread. Rod Beckstrom, President of ICANN drove home this point in a recent press release stating: “One fifth of the world speaks Chinese and that means we just increased the potential online accessibility for roughly a billion [...]
When Rick Schwartz announced the schedule for T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami here the majority of the comments related to the surprising announcement that T.R.A.F.F.I.C. will have a session partially devoted to IDNs. Rick describes the session as follows: “3:00 Is the Gold Rush beginning or ending? The impact of the new gtld’s, IDN, and will .whatever be [...]
Did you notice a trend with recent domain sales charts? Increasingly, .com names in other languages seem to be multiplying. Headlined by Kredit.com, “Credit” in German for 220,000 EUR, and followed by Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French and German names, foreign .com domains in these languages have all been featured prominently in past months. While Chinese, [...]
המפתח means “the key” in Hebrew. www.המפתח.com is being used to promote a special “Discount Bank Card” which helps its users save money. The bus ads are said to be everywhere in Israel and this is truly a sign of the branding power of IDN.com. *Tip of the hat to Moshe “Michael” Schneider for the [...]
Last week, the Cyrillic domain “а.com” (xn--80a.com, and not to be confused with the Latin “a.com” ) sold at GoDaddy auctions for the price of $4,505, with 53 bidders having placed bids. Also last week, Lonnie Borck of B52 Media bought a different single letter domain, “e.co” for $81,000. Which is the better buy? Would [...]
Sarmady Communications, is a powerful Arabic domain development and digital media company recently profiled in BusinessWeek. Their homepage boasts an advertising network of websites that reach over 15 million customers. Many of these high-traffic websites, such as FilGoal.com are also owed by Sarmady. Most interesting, is that Sarmady didn’t start off as a success. It [...]
ندن.com (London).com recently sold for $5,000 on IDNForums leading a flurry of IDN sales over the past few days. Also within the week, a package of 5 Japanese city names sold for a BIN price of $6,000. The names included: 堺.com – Sakai 堺市.com -Sakai (City) 一宮市.com – Ichinomiya (City) 市原市.com – Ichihara (City) 越谷市.com [...]
Arabic is spoken by approximately 280 million people. As such, the pent-up demand for Arabic IDNs is starting to express itself as dignitaries and government officials have begun to laud the release of Arabic IDN.IDN names. This “represents a milestone in Internet history,” said Tarek Kamel, Egypt’s minister of communications. The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh [...]
